Born in Baltimore, MD but raised in Salisbury, MD, Jessie B. Evans has been an a director, producer, writer, actor for as long as he can remember often writing short stories, recruiting his siblings to play the other characters and performing for his family in the living room anc charging them a dollar to attend.
After graduating from Morgan State University, Jessie moved to Los Angeles where within a year he sold his first reality show to WeTV. Since then he has placed shows at Bunim-Murray, E1, Bravo and Brian Graden Media. In addition to several national commercials, Jessie has appeared in guest star roles on Nickelodeon, CBS, Syfy, Netflix, and TruTV. He is currently a series regular on Sy-Fy’s “Crisis Earth.”
Jessie’s short “The Talk”, which he wrote and directed, won first place at the AT&T Film Festival and his screenplay “Being The Girl: Bijan Black'' was a finalist in the Macro Black List screenwriting competition. “Vestige”, a short film that he starred in was short-listed for a BAFTA. Most recently Jessie’s short Out of Air was an official selection for the oscar-qualifying ABFF and MVAAFF film festivals and won best sci-fi short at the Hollywood Gold awards. The film can be viewed on American Airline’s Inflight Entertainment and AT&T's Equality First app.
Jessie is the Founder of Hollywood Here and the co-organizer of #RaiseThePercentage Virtual Coffee Week, an initiative that has connected over 2,000 underrepresented writers with established writers and executives in free one-on-one virtual coffees. Past Participants & Clients include Peter Gould, Krista Vernoff, Courtney Kemp, Marvel, ABC Networks, Sony Pictures Television and more. The viral hashtag #RaiseThePercentage has garnered over 7 Million timeline deliverables to date. and has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Money Magazine, The WGA Blog and more. In his free time Jessie enjoys spending time in the boxing ring or reading a good book!
In September of 2023 Jessie almost lost his life to a senseless act of horrific violence. He was hospitalized for a month with multiple stab wounds all over his body including his head chest, face, back and spine. This left him with a rare spinal cord injury condition called Brown-Sequard Syndrome which is paralysis/weakness on one side of the body and a loss of sensation on the other. With the cards stacked against him, Jessie had to learn how to walk and write again from scratch. During his time in the hospital Jessie used his creativity to combat the darkness and wrote his first children’s book, “The Magic in Your Words” a captivating book about the power of positive self-talk. Jessie has made tremendous strides in his his mobility and strength and has now vowed to raise awareness about brown-sequard syndrome and people living with “invisible disabilities.”