Jessica Glassberg is an award-winning writer, stand-up comedian, producer and director. She currently creates content for NBCUniversal including original work written for Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, Jane Lynch, Ana Gasteyer, The Olympics, America’s Got Talent and One Chicago: Fire, Med and P.D. She has written two TV movies: You Make it Feel Like Christmas, which aired on Lifetime and is currently streaming on Peacock, as well as Love at Sky Gardens which is airing on UPtv and was nominated for 2 Canadian Screen Awards. As a member of the sketch group My Internet Friends, the piece she wrote and stars in “Special Delivery” has been featured on the Elizabeth Banks site WHOHAHA. Additionally, for eleven years, she was the head writer on "The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon" where she performed stand-up on the nationally syndicated show five times. Similarly, she was a featured performer on “The History of the Joke with Lewis Black” on The History Channel and has done voice-over work on the animated show, Game Over, starring Lucy Liu as well as the digital series The Dreidelmans.
Glassberg has also written on Zeke and Luther, for Disney XD, A Hollywood Christmas at The Grove for EXTRA, and The Screen Actors Guild Awards for TBS/TNT (where her jokes were highlighted on E!’s The Soup, EntertainmentWeekly.com, and Hollywood.com). Glassberg recently wrote the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for her fourth year which included Regina King, Brian Cranston, Tony Shaloub, Angela Bassett as presenters. Jessica also wrote, directed and appeared in the premiere of, “Ben and Becca’s Totally Retro B’nai Mitzvah,” a completely interactive comedy production (a la, “Tony and Tina’s Wedding”). Additionally, Jessica’s original monologues have been published by Hal Leonard Corporation in the “Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny,” series for Women, Men, Teens, Girls, Boys, Kids and LGBTQ. She also has 8 haikus published in Your House Keys are in the Dryer - A Parenting Haiku Book, and contributed an essay to Periods, Period, both from Post Hill Press.
Jessica is quite prolific in the digital space, with her work featured on NBC.com, Buzzfeed, WHOHAHA, HelloGiggles.com, Reductress.com, xoJane.com, HotMomsClub.com, Kveller.com, AbsrdCOMEDY.com, attn.com, DailyDisclosure.com and Torquemag.io.
Additionally, Jessica has put all of her years as a professional writer and script reader towards her own SCRIPT ANALYSIS company. So, if you are looking for some guidance on a TV or film script, outline or treatment, Jessica can help.
And COMING IT HOT, the monthly stand-up coming show Jessica co-produces is BACK on the first Wednesday of the month at Brews Brothers in Burbank! Past guests include: David Koechner, Maria Bamford, Laurie Kilmartin, Helen Hong, Kyle Kinane and MORE!
Jessica considers herself proud to be a wife to a wonderfully supportive husband, adoring mother to two extraordinary daughters, and a terrible homemaker. Please don't ask to come over. You'll most assuredly trip on a toy and she doesn't have insurance to cover that.
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