Jessica Hubbard began dancing at the age of four at Nutmeg Ballet in Torrington, Connecticut. She trained classically under Sharon Dante, Eleanor D'Antuono and Alexi Tchernichov amongst others, and attended various summer programs with such esteemed schools as Joffrey Ballet and the Rock School of Pennsylvania. Jessica continued to dance and perform under Denise Warner Limoli while attending Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. During her time at Skidmore, Jessica also taught ballet classes at the Merritt Dance Center in Schenectady, New York and guest performed in The Nutcracker as the Sugar Plum Fairy for the Adirondack Ballet Company in Queensbury, New York. Jessica graduated magna cum laude from Skidmore in 2002 with a double major in Dance and Sociology and went on to attend Columbia University, receiving her Masters degree in Quantitative Social Science Research in May of 2005. Since that time she has been working at IAG Research as a Research Analyst for the movie industry and she continues to dance as much as she can manage. Jessica met Laura Ward while working on the musical Project: Ground Control and joined Octavia Cup Dance Theater in 2005.