BIOGRAPHY

Jacob Basri is a director originally from Berkeley, California. He is an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps, the 2017–18 Van Lier Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, and the 2023–24 Directing Fellow at the Rattlestick Theater. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where he received the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing. Jacob is also an associate artist with Compagnia de Colombari.

He has assisted a number of directors including David Cromer, Rebecca Taichman, Lila Neugebauer, Robert O’Hara, Pam MacKinnon, Carl Cofield, and Karin Coonrod.

Recent directing credits include Burnbabyburnby 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), Fun Home (Korsa Musical Theatre Company), and The Woman in Black (Weston Theatre Company).