About
Jacob is a New York based theatre director, playwright, dramaturg, and aspiring artistic leader from central Kentucky.
Jacob is passionate about developing and producing new and experimental works of live theatre, with an interest in interdisciplinary collaborations. Thematically, his work often explores diverse perspectives of human sexuality, all across the spectrum - and how we depict / discuss Romance and Sex.
Jacob has collaborated with playwrights Kari Barclay, Tre Calhoun, Aidan Carr, Rick Ehrstin, Emily Everett, Cory Finley, Gracie Gardner, Fiona Gorry-Hines, Keiko Green, David Jackson, Arika Larson, Zoe Lasden-Lyman, Evie Mason, Kate Mickere, Edward Precht, Will Snider, Jay Stull, and Blake Sugarman.
He has also directed Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and A Number, Gregory S. Moss’s Indian Summer, Young Jean Lee’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), Martin McDonough’s The Pillowman, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, and Burt V Royal’s Dog Sees God.
Jacob has directed and assisted with Actors Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Beth Morrison Projects, the Brick, BAM Next Wave, est/Youngblood, FringeNYC, the Humana Festival, Primary Stages mfa, LA Opera, SITI Company, the Tank, and the ARK New Play Fest @ TheatreSquared.
He has assisted Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Leigh Silverman, Jon Jory, Lila Neugebauer, Gia Forakis, and most recently Michael Mayer on John Logan’s Swept Away with music + lyrics by the Avett Brothers. Jacob is a former artistic apprentice with Page 73 productions, workshop assistant with Clubbed Thumb including SuperLabs co-curated with Playwrights Horizons, and he is an alum of the Professional Training Program at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Jacob has an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, mentored by Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, Katie Mitchell, and David Henry Hwang. BA: Fordham University.
Upcoming: Annie Baker’s John (English Theatre of Rome), Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple (Woodford Theatre), and new plays by Charles L. Mee and Evie Mason.
