Tessa Long

Long, Tessa

Mentioned in Encore in Death (Monday, June 28 - Thursday, July 1, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Mixed race, native New Yorker
• Age: 54
• Relationships: Mai Li (wife); unnamed 16-year-old twin daughters; unnamed pediatric surgeon mother; unnamed neurologist father; unnamed 42-year-old orthopedic surgeon brother; unnamed general surgeon sister-in-law, married to her brother 19 years; unnamed 16-year-old nephew; unnamed 13-year-old nephew
• Residence: Chelsea
• Secondary Residence: Oyster Bay
• Occupation: Director, Upstage

Interesting Facts

• Had been married 18 years.
• Her parents had been married 56 years.
• Vera Harrow was chatting with Tessa Long, her wife, and Kurtis Walter from Stage and Screen while Brant Fitzhugh was directing Monika Kajinski on how to make a champagne cocktail for Eliza Lane at their party.
• Samantha Keene noticed her standing near Brant Fitzhugh and near Carla and her date when Samantha and Eliza Lane started to sing before Brant drank the poison.
• Minerva Novak has worked with her on two other shows.
• Eliza said she and Tessa had butted heads, but she (Lane) adored her (Long).
• Solid education, theater major, financially stable, trust fund.
• Employment history: started young, summer theater work, interning, assistanting, gofering, worked her way up. Worked with Lane twenty years ago (~2041) - she was assistant stage manager in a Broadway play Lane was headlining, then three years later (~2044) was assistant director, then five years more as director (~2049), then as Lane’s director on a screen special four years after that (~2053) - one that included Sylvie Bowen, and then director on a major vid two years after that (~2055).
• Minerva Novak and Malcomb Furrier were talking to Tessa and Mai when Eliza brought Sam up for the duet.