Hi there, I'm Jake!

I was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Bend, Oregon. It was during high school that I fell in love with acting and live performance and decided to do whatever I could to spend the rest of my life making art. I attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Summer Seminar for High School Juniors in 2013, and was introduced to an astounding amount of amazing artists and theatre creators.

In fact I loved it so much I ended up enrolling at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University, right down the street from OSF. I graduated in 2019 and travelled as well as worked with different theatre companies such as Struts and Frets Theatre Company in Salem, OR and Puppeteers for Fears! In Fall of 2023 I relocated to Staunton, VA where I entered into the Shakespeare and Performance Graduate Program at Mary Baldwin University in association with the American Shakespeare Center. After earning my Master of Letters and Master of Fine Arts while being an Actor and Production Manager for Constellation Shakespeare Collective, I went to Chillicothe, Ohio, and performed in the outdoor drama Tecumseh! and directed their annual Shakespeare on Sugarloaf production.

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When not making theatre or teaching, I love to exercise in the gym, read historical fiction, hike through the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, and continue to write poetry.