BIOGRAPHY
Jacob Basri is a director originally from Berkeley, California. He completed his MFA at the Yale School of Drama in spring of '23 where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing. He is an alum of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps, and the 2017/2018 Van Lier directing fellow at Playwright’s Horizons. His work has appeared at Rattlestick, Lincoln Center, The Flea, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Columbia University School of the Arts, Wow Haus, Williamstown, Yale Summer Cabaret, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Most recently, Jacob directed Burnbabyburn by a.k. payne (Yale Summer Cabaret), Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare (Yale Drama), Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (Yale Drama), littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen (Yale Drama) and wrote and directed the animated short film Phosphor. He will direct a production of the musical Fun Home for YMTC+ in spring of 24’. He is currently the directing fellow at the Rattlestick Theatre.