Jessica Wallenfels

Teaching Artist

Email: jwallenfels@phamepdx.org

Jessica Wallenfels (she/her) creates new work that is music and movement-driven with her company, Many Hats Collaboration. In recent years she has run The Hatchery, a new works development festival centering music and movement which has launched six new works to date, including Undertow, a new musical based on the film Contracorrirente, in 2026. Other works include writing and co-directing Great Wide Open, a co-production with Portland Playhouse, as well as The November Project, Matter, and The Undertaking. As a freelance director/choreographer, Wallenfels has directed Into the Woods (Broadway Rose), Everybody (Artists Repertory Theatre), The Wolves and Scarlet (Portland Playhouse). Her work has been seen at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Oregon Children’s Theater and other venues. Wallenfels has taught at Portland State University, Western Oregon University, University of Portland, Mt. Hood Community College, Clackamas Community College, Pacific Lutheran University and Portland Community College. She holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in directing from the University of Portland. More info at www.manyhatscollaboration.org.