ABOUT
T.O.M.S.
Together. On. Main. Street.
Theatre on Main Street’s vision is to bring immersive storytelling to our Main Streets, U.S.A for performers and audiences alike.
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Our not-for-profit theatre company aims to revolutionize suburban cultural landscapes by bringing quality, immersive theatre to local communities. We specialize in intimate productions that feature diverse casting and innovative storytelling techniques, bridging the gap between urban artistic hubs and underserved suburban areas. Our small, semi-professional theatre embraces the rustic and artistic landscape of our Valley, and aims to create performance art that speaks to its residents, and rises above your traditional community theatre.
By blurring the lines between audience and performer, we create unique, accessible theatrical experiences that foster community engagement and cultural enrichment. Our mission is to make high-caliber, transformative theatre an integral part of suburban life, nurturing local talent and cultivating new audiences for the performing arts. We are not a rural Broadway. We are a theatre which prizes storytelling over glamour, and true craft over branding. We are a growing troupe of artists who value the truth of the human experience and the delivery of these truths to our communities.
Our small theatre company is committed to its mission to provide a comprehensive performing arts center for the community, serving as a studio of artistic education in our suburban community. Recognizing the need for diverse experiences, we've expanded our offerings to include a rich tapestry of classes and workshops that bring professional instruction in the performing arts to local adults and teens in our Theatre Arts Lab.
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Through the Theatre Arts Lab, we are committed to bringing quality performing arts classes taught by trained educators and professionals in the performing arts. Many of the students in these classes have appeared in our MainStage productions, as we are driven to provide performance opportunities for students wishing to take their craft to live theatre audiences. Through creating strong educational foundations in the performing arts, an important mission of our theatre is to nurture and develop local talent, and employ those who strive to take their artistic journey outside the studio.
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OUR BOARD
Dr. Marisa Pascucci
Brittany Mae Kim
Jessica Jaber
Michael E. Boyle, Jr
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Our Founders
Jessica Jaber, AEA • SAG-AFTRA
Jessica has performed various roles as an actor, dancer and singer on television, film, and in theatre and is a current member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor's Equity Association. ​She holds an Associates in Arts in Performing Arts, as well as a Bachelor's in Business Administration in Accounting from Pace University. She studied Meisner Technique under Alan Gordon, and continued studying her craft with scene study and Master Classes with Howard Meyer, David Deblinger and Charles Goforth, and was a member of LAByrinth Ensemble Intensive.
Favorite past theatre performances include DEMETER in Theatre on Main Street's inaugural production of "Cats", JESS (Jesus) in Main Street's 'Godspell', a performance in an off-Broadway production of new plays, where she originated the role of Jeannette, in Taking Care, written by Greg Keller, of LAByrinth Theatre Company. Locally, she had made her Elmwood Playhouse Debut in A Time to Kill as the sassy young lawyer, Ellen Roark, and had made her Shades Repertory Theatre debut as Shelley, in Sam Shephard's Buried Child.
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Jessica has produced, written, directed and performed in staged readings of original one act plays in The Root Collective's "The Nomad Series", presented at Bank Street and Cherry Lane Theatres, as well as the Mandalay Bar in NYC, for which she was a founding member of the emerging, 30 member not-for-profit collective of artists. Most recently, she produced, directed, cast, designed sets, costumes and props for all of Theatre on Main Street's past four seasons.
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Her first independent film production, when skies are grey, directed by Lucas Ruderman, is based on the novella, Secret Places by Brittany Mae. Jessica produced the film, wrote the screenplay, cast and performed in the film. The film was selected for various national festivals, and was the recipient of several awards.
Jessica is classically trained in ballet under master teachers Paul Lau, Co-Founder of the Hong Kong Ballet, and Leonid Kozlov, Principal Dancer from the Bolshoi and NYCB and, has also studied Martha Graham Modern and various styles of jazz. She danced with Kozlov Dance International, performing classical and contemporary works in New York, New Jersey and the Caribbean. She studied with the RAD for a Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies, and is a licensed Silver Swans, Progressing Ballet Technique Level II, certified FLX Stretch instructor.