Jessie Knowles

 

Jessie Knowles is a professional actress who received her BA in theater studies from Emerson College in 2003. As a graduate of Chattanooga State’s Professional Actor Training Program, she has appeared in several professional productions in Chattanooga including Hedda Gabler, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the original play by Rex Knowles, Rosemary Leaves.  She has been a member of the two-act musical improv show Luck of the Draw for over 10 years and has performed it in Chattanooga and New York City. Jessie appeared in the New York Musical Theater Festival in That Other Woman’s Child, a bluegrass musical.  She has taught musical theater, voice, guitar and piano for two years in Chattanooga and Dalton and is the editor-in-chief of Chattanooga State’s newspaper, The Communicator.