Meet Jessica Detty
Jessica Detty is a Props Master, Actor, Dancer, Singer, Choreographer, Director, Armorer, and all around Jack-of-All-Trades. Originally from Brazil, Indiana, her props and performance work have been seen on stage and screen all over the nation, including in New York (Off-Broadway), Los Angeles, New Orleans, and everywhere in between.
Props and Fabrication
Like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole, so too did Jessica stumble into a mad passion for making props. While earning her BA in Scenic Design for Theatre from Ball State University, she was unexpectedly recruited to fill in for the Props Master of a period play that introduced her to how props can make or break a good story. After moving to New York, her favorite nerd introduced her to New York Comic Con. There she found new and exciting tools, methods, and materials that have influenced every subsequent project she has done. These projects took her to LA to work on the DC Universe Online international cosplay photoshoot “Project:LEX,” multiple Off-Broadway productions, and theatre productions across the country, including New York, LA, New Orleans, and online.
Every project is a chance to learn something new and she can’t wait to see what comes next. (She’s manifesting a SYFY film gig next, please!)
On Stage
Jessica has been a dancer, singer, and actor since she could walk and talk. She basically grew up inside a dance studio and starred in all sorts of musicals and ballets, including playing The Narrator in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat,” Wendy in “Peter Pan,” and Mary Poppins in “Mary Poppins.” After earning her Bachelors in Scenic Design with a dance minor, Jessica moved to New York where she hit a Shakespearean streak, playing The Nurse in “Romeo and Juliet,” Lysander in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and performing in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” for the Fort Tryon Medieval Festival. Since her time in New York, Jessica has been seen in plays and musicals all over the country, portraying roles such as Barbara Demarco in “Shear Madness” (New Orleans regional premier), Florinda in “Into the Woods,” Annie in “Evil Dead: The Musical,” and the Waitress in “The Nightman Cometh.”