• Jacob Presson, MFA 2022

  • Jacob Presson
    Area of Study Acting
    Height 6'0"
    Hair Color Brown
    Eye Color Brown
    Email [email protected]
    Websites
    http://www.jacobpresson.com

    Resume


    Experience Name: MFA Mainstage Production
    Show: The Cherry Orchard
    Character: Gaev Leonid Andreevich
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Anton Chekhov
    Director: Aneesha Kudtarkar

    Experience Name: MFA CoLab New Play Festival
    Show: Isabel
    Character: Isabel
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Ruth Tang
    Director: I-Chen Wang

    Experience Name: MFA Shakespeare Project
    Show: Measure for Measure
    Character: Angelo/Claudio
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: William Shakespeare
    Director: Bakari Lebby

    Show: Fuck Marry Kill
    Character: Matty Pags
    Playhouse / Producer: New Ohio Theatre/Less Than Rent
    Playwright: James Presson
    Director: Sash Bischoff

    Show: Our Town
    Character: Constable Warren, et. al.
    Playhouse / Producer: Green-Wood Cemetary/Theatre Under the Moonlight
    Playwright: Thornton Wilder
    Director: James Presson

    Show: Much Ado About Nothing
    Character: Verges
    Playhouse / Producer: Shakespeare on the Sound
    Playwright: William Shakespeare
    Director: Brian McManamon

    Show: Breath and Shadow
    Character: Viewpoints Ensemble
    Playhouse / Producer: NYSAF Non-Eq Co.
    Playwright: Devised
    Director: Jessi D. Hill

    Education

    MFA in Acting, School of Drama, College of Performing Arts at The New School

    BA in Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College 




    Skills

    Teaching; Improv; Clown; Playwriting; Dialects: R.P., Cockney, Southern Irish, Russian, Brooklyn, Southern; Viewpoints; Stage Combat (Unarmed & Dagger); Great with Kids; Valid US Passport.

    Training

    Acting: Patrice Johnson, Crystal Dickinson, Stephen Brown Fried, Caymichael Patten, Kathy Rossetter

    On-camera: Bob Krakower, Eric Reis, Sanjit De Silva, Eden Malyn, Lesly Kahn & Co. 

    Commedia dell’arte: Jean Taylor, Shelly Wyant

    Linklater/Speech: Andrea Haring, Alba Quezada, Susan Cameron

    Movement: Teva Bjerken, Cynthia Reynolds, Nora Woolley, Thomas Schall 

    B.A.D.A-British American Drama Academy: Midsummer in Oxford, UK



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