Born in Perth, Western Australia, Jessica started ballet at the age of six at Terri Charlesworth Ballet Centre. In 2011 she was accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). At WAAPA she had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Nils Christe, Kim McCarthy and Xiaoxiong Zhang, and perform in a range of repertoire, including Balanchine’s Serenade and Jardi Tancat by Nacho Duato.

After graduating from WAAPA, she moved to Germany in 2015 to complete her Masters at the Akademie des Tanzes in Mannheim. During that year, she danced with Badisches Staatsballett Karlsruhe, where she performed in The Taming of the Shrew, Youri Vámos’ The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, and Terence Kohler’s Das Kleine Schwarze/ The Riot of Spring. Jessica has also performed professionally with West Australian Ballet in Serenade (2012) and Giselle (2014).

Jessica joined Singapore Ballet as an apprentice in March 2017, and was promoted to Artist in January 2018. Her classical repertoire highlights include soloist roles as Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty, the Stepmother in Cinderella, and Big Swans in Swan Lake. She has also danced in a range of neoclassical and contemporary ballets, including Serenade, Blue Snow, Jabula and Opus 25, as well as Organ Concerto, SYNC, ZIN! and Purcell Pieces by Nils Christe. Jessica has enjoyed performing many of the ballets by Choo-San Goh, including Fives, In the Glow of the Night, Birds of Paradise and Double Contrasts, and being a part of new creations, such as Evening Voices, Quiver and Without You by Tim Rushton, After Happy Ever by Alice Topp, Rite of Spring by Kinsun Chan, and Reflections by Paul Knobloch.