The Team
JESSA SMITH CAMPBELL
Founder & Artistic Director
Jessa Smith Campbell is an actor, playwright, and composer. She studied Musical Theatre at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has trained at The Stella Adler Academy and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles, CA. She has performed in feature films, television series, music videos, and numerous theatrical productions.
Inspired by the #MeToo movement and the politicization of the female reproductive system, Jessa wrote a one-act play titled North Carolina, 2028 which competed in the 2020 Strawberry One-Act Festival in New York City. Following its success, she fostered a true passion for women-driven pieces and began the first draft of Woven, an original musical based on the female characters of Homer’s The Odyssey. Woven debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2023 to an overwhelmingly positive response from critics and audience members alike. She will revise and workshop the piece in the coming years, hopefully gaining the support from industry professionals who are interested in the development of new work.
Jessa set a goal to create a space where up-and-coming artists will be heard and their work will be championed. Thus, in 2023, she founded Nine Muses Theatre Co.
Eleanore Frances
Eleanore is a passionate multi-creative based in London: she is an actor, vocalist, producer and director with a BA Hons in Creative Performance (Acting). She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Blown Fuse Theatre, a multidisciplinary theatre company that creates new performance possibilities by exploring the combination of storytelling, theatre, and technology. Blown Fuse's work has toured London, Essex, and the Brighton Fringe Festival, and their community arts outreach work takes them all over the borough. Additionally, Eleanore is Associate Producer with Quite Good Theatre, and is committed to developing boundary-pushing productions that showcase the crème-de-la-crème of current talent in electric, high-quality performances.
Eleanore is excited to continue working with Nine Muses Theatre Co. as Creative Producer and can't wait to be part of what the future holds for this fledgling female-led company.
Creative Producer
Molly Kinnon
Resident Director
Molly Kinnon is an American-born artist and lecturer. She moved to Glasgow at 18 to attend The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She then obtained her Masters at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Since graduating, she has worked in the US and the UK as a teacher, director, and actor, notably with Glasgow Academy of Musical Theatre Arts and The MGA Academy of Performing Arts. During the pandemic, Molly founded and ran The Actor’s Community, an online teaching platform for creatives with partner Mark Rowley (The Last Kingdom). Through the platform, she worked with students internationally on their drama school audition packages.
Currently, Molly is a Resident Artist at Pacific Conservatory of the Arts in California. She actively participates in ABAR work and is pursuing accreditation in Intimacy Direction.
Julie MacLean
Dramaturg & Playwright
Julie MacLean is a Los Angeles-based playwright and screenwriter with a passion for storytelling. After receiving her B.A. in Theatre and Creative Writing from Colby College, she moved to the West Coast to pursue a writing career. For several years she worked in the development department at Lakeshore Entertainment, where she helped writers and producers craft stories that would eventually make it to the big screen. When she wasn’t working, she honed her skills at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and iO West, and performed stand-up comedy at venues like The Comedy Store and Flappers. Her work has placed in several highly regarded screenwriting competitions. She is passionate about uplifting marginalized voices and representing underrepresented communities. Most of all, she is so excited to be working with the Nine Muses team of incredible female artists!