
My name is Jake. I direct plays about where we are and who we are, and what they have to do with each other.
I direct things that are fun, and weird, and about the irreconcilabilities of being alive, but they're often fun. I think they have to be in order to sneak up on you.
Selected awards include:
2020 AIRS Resident at the Hangar Theatre
2019 Flea Resident Director
2018 Drama League Fellow,
2017 Drama League Resident Artist
2017 Williamstown Theater Festival Directing Corps
2016 Westport Country Playhouse Directing Fellow under Mark Lamos + David Kennedy
2012-2013 SDC Observership Class
Led resident companies & student actors at:
Atlantic Acting School
Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Flea Theater
Hangar Theatre Company
Associated Artist at The New Group.
One of three Founding Artistic Directors of PLAYxPLAY