Jessica Cadden Osborne and Jake Wentlent found each other on a small stage in Endicott, NY. It was 2018. They were cast as tumultuous leads, Brick and Maggie, in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It all came to pass a little by chance, a little by fate and maybe a little by design. They’re a pair of devoted artists at heart — suffering equally and proudly the trials and triumphs of such Dionysian pursuits.
Jess, a native of Scranton’s West Side, went from tiny pointe shoes at the Ballet Theatre of Scranton to Bishop O’Hara to Philly’s University of the Arts to one of the world’s biggest stages – Radio City Music Hall. That’s right, a Rockette. For some, that might seem the pinnacle achievement in a lifetime of grueling practice. The ever-impertinent and plucky NEPA native, however, viewed it as limiting. It was art expressed bodily. Not a bad thing, but she wanted to sing. She…
