Jen Jacobs (she/her) is a Director, Actor, Singer, and overall Creator.

Jen is a freelance Director currently based in Washington, DC. She is also a Teaching Artist with Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), Levine Music School, and Theater J.

Some recent Directing credits include Safe Hands: A New Musical (Off-Broadway-SheNYC), Drown The Muse (Capital Fringe), Dear Edwina Jr (Murch Elementary), Stop and Think, Please (Mosaic Theatre Company- New Play Reading Series), Stef and Arno (Spooky Action Theater-We Are Not Alone Reading Series). She has also recently worked as Assistant Director on the world premiere production of The Chameleon (dir. Ellie Heyman) at Theater J, The Cherry Orchard (dir. Aaron Posner) at STC Academy, and served as Assistant to the Director on Here There Are Blueberries (dir. Moisés Kaufman) at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC).

Jen is also a freelance Young Performer Supervisor. Recent YPS credits include Evita (STC), The Jungle (STC), Once Upon A One More Time (STC), and Our Town (STC).

Jen also has experience in Intimacy Coordination, including on Safe Hands (Off Broadway-SheNYC) and The Cherry Orchard (STC Academy).

Jen is the former Education Programs/Production Assistant at Theater J and has worked a variety of different jobs at theaters around the DC metro area as well as NYC.

Jen has appeared on stage in a number of productions. Most recently she can be seen on the virtual stage as Jessica in District Merchants (Theater at CBT and Globe Openstage) and as Dolly in Safe Hands: A Virtual Musical Event. Other credits include Nurse in the world premiere of Rachel Kitzinger and Eamon Grennan’s new translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis (Vassar), Bib in Alabaster (Vassar), Anna in Spring Awakening (Vassar), and Georgia in Curtains (Pebble Players).

She graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Drama and History (Honors). She is an alumnus of New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Training Program as a Directing Apprentice as well as London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) Classical Acting Semester Program. She was a Directing Fellow at Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2021.