Jessica Dromgoole is a British director of contemporary theatre and radio-plays, as well as a former Artistic Director of the Finborough Theatre from 1988 to 1991. From 1991 she has been New Writing Co-ordinator for BBC Drama, Entertainment and Children's programmes.
Dromgoole is the daughter of schoolteacher Jenny Davis and Patrick Dromgoole, a former managing director of Harlech Television. Dromgoole is the older sister of Dominic Dromgoole.
Dromgoole won the 2007 Prix Italia for Original Radio Drama with The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body. She won the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Audio Drama with Lost Property: The Year My Mother Went Missing. She won the 2012 Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Drama with A Tale of Two Cities.