Jessica Jane Witham is the company manager, a lead teacher, a performer, and a director with Whoopensocker. She has spent 30 years working in different aspects of performance and production, serving as both an actress and a technician regionally and in New York City. She has found a strong love for arts administration while working with Encore Studio for the Performing Arts (Wisconsin’s only professional theater company for actors with disabilities) as former Program Director and current Artistic Associate. Witham also loves going to school and has attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City in addition to University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology.