Jackob Hofmann

Jackob Hofmann has been working professionally in theatre since the early 1990s. His NY directing credits include an array of Off-Broadway productions and staged readings for Abingdon Theatre including the NY premieres of John Morogiello’s Engaging Shaw (NY Times Critics’ Pick) and Blame it on Beckett. Additional NY directing credits include productions of: Unwrap Your Candy, Tower of Toys, Xavier Speaks, Tracking Gertrude Tredwell, and The Speed Date. Notable acting credits include Theatre Row productions of: Marat/Sade, Holy Ghosts, Dark of the Moon, Footprints on the Moon, and The Tempest. Also a playwright, Jackob’s drama, A Persistent Memory, was produced Off-Broadway at The Beckett Theatre, in 2016, by MBL Productions. He is a two time finalist in Samuel French’s OOB Short Play Festival. Honored to be a faculty member at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Jackob also works as an adjunct theatre professor/director at Fairfield University. His Theatre Fairfield directing credits include: Avenue Q, Rhinoceros, Authenticity, The Thanksgiving Play, and Silent Sky. Jackob graduated with his BFA from The New School and his MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC