Jason Jacobs (director) is a New York-based director, writer, and teaching artist who has been named a ‘‘Person of the Year” by NYTheatre.com. Most recently, he was a Collaborative Artist in the Reverb Theatre Arts Festival, presenting the voices of artists with disabilities on the virtual stage. He directed Lavender Songs: A Queer Weimar Berlin Cabaret, which won a Backstage Bistro Award in 2008 and returned for extended run at Pangea during the Trump years. His original musical Miss Blanche Tells It All, played at the 2017 New York Musical Festival and was nominated for Best Book. He was a founding co-artistic director of Theatre Askew, where he co-created and directed Bald Diva!, I, Claudius Live! and devised numerous projects with LGBTQ youth. Other favorite New York projects include After the Chairs (2014 Fresh Fruit Festival, Best Direction) and the Modern Living series (LaMama Club). His co-adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared at Pittsburgh Playhouse and his play Another Horatio Alger Story was featured at Chicago’s Pride Film and Players Gay Play Fest. As a guest director for Post Theatre Company, he directed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Tempest, Machinal, Big Love, Marat/Sade, Batboy! The Musical, and As You Like It, and Ryan Hudak’s Oak for PTC’s New Playwrights Festival. Regional productions at Vermont Stage Company and Kitchen Theatre; Member of Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab; Teaching Artist with Roundabout Theatre Company and Adjunct Professor at LIU/CW Post. B.A., Yale and MFA, Columbia.