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Jacob Presson, MFA 2022

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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

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

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.

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