Coffee with Jessica Zweiman
It's Been 20 Years! Ah, Jessica Zweiman. Jess Zweiman was the petite, platform mouse stomper boot wearing, rebel Jewish goddess of my dreams in college. I didn’t even know I’d dreamed of her, but there she was in all her glory as a member of the West Virginia University Theatre Department class of 1999. It is absolutely insane to me that it has been almost 20 years since we graduated. We both turned 40 recently. How in the hell did that happen? Mouse Stompin' Jess Jess at First Glance: The College Years My first remembrance of Jess is seeing her across a dark acting studio in the bowels of the CAC (short for Creative Arts Center, a building which resembled a giant toilet), looking fierce, probably lounging on a classmate, and intensely favoring Kirstie Alley. It was her eyes. They held some type of wisdom, and wit, and just straight up fierceness. When I found out she was from New York, I thought well damn, there you go . She looked like she had her shit together.