Jessie Getlik
Jessie Getlik has played many intriguing characters over the course of the last few years, but she turns in a break-out performance in the role of the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Director Robin Dawn Ryan bucked tradition by casting Getlik as strikingly beautiful and sultry. In fact, this was how Producer Mervyn LeRoy originally conceived the character in the MGM movie. Toward that end, he cast beauty Gale Sondergaard in the role of a sleek, sexy Wicked Witch of the West. 
While Ryan wishes to make the point that people can be beautiful on the outside while downright ugly inside, MGM executives did not think audiences would get that point in 1939. But Getlik is more than beautiful. She brings out through her demeanor, facial expressions and other affectations that at heart, her fatal flaw is abject narcissism and the concomitant belief that the land of Oz, if not the entire universe, revolves around her.
Jessie is a former Royal Caribbean & Disney Cruise Line performer who has relocated from New Jersey to Fort Myers. After performing for theme parks, golf clubs and cruise ships for the past ten years, Jessie can be seen in various Live at Chocs! events at Chocolattes.
She made her Fort Myers Theatre debut as one of the dancestors (Flapper/Moon) in The Addams Family Musical and 
was last seen as Miss Scarlet in Clue on Stage at Fort Myers Theatre. Other credits include Cruella De Vil in Disney’s Descendants: The Musical at Fort Myers Theatre. She Also played Aunt March in Little Women for Fort Myers Theatre.
April 20, 2022; revised October 18, 2024.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.