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Jacob Basri

Director, Short Plays

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 David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he received the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing. Jacob is also an associate artist with Compagnia de Colombari. Recent directing credits include Burnbabyburn by 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), Fun Home (Korsa Musical Theatre Company), The Trial of Ubu by Simon Stephens (Atlantic Acting School), and The Woman in Black (Weston Theatre Company).