Jess Catalano grew up in the mid '90s in Flushing, Queens. She wrote and directed her first short film in 2018, FANTASY PRONE, which premiered at NewFilmmakers NY. In 2024, she wrote, executive produced and starred in the comedy short, RAGING DOLL which premiered at Dances with Films NY and won the Audience Award for Pilot Series. She is an executive producer on Letia Solomon's, THE QUEEN, THE WITCH AND THE KNIGHT, which is fiscally sponsored by Tribeca + Black Film Space. Catalano has several projects in development, both on and off the camera, and she considers herself a true multihyphenate (even though calling oneself a ‘true multihyphenate’ is pretty f*cking corny) She lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.