Jacob Perkins is a writer + performer from South Carolina. His plays include a triptych of texts titled HOME CHURCH PLAY (comprised of HOME CHURCH PLAY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, and DAD), THE GOLD ROOM, RESTAURANT IN D MAJOR, and THE THIRD RAIL. He’s presented and developed his work through Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Page 73 @ Yale, Soho Rep., Two Headed Rep, Studio Tisch @ NYU, Gibney Dance Center, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, and the NEWvember Festival, among others. He won the inaugural DVRF/O’Henry Productions Emerging Playwright Award, was shortlisted for multiple O'Neill Theater Center NPCs, received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 Relentless Award, and named a semifinalist for the 2018 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Alumnus of Ars Nova Play Group, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Project Y Playwrights Group.
As an actor, he is currently rehearsing Yehuda Hyman's THE MAR VISTA which will play at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre in March 2019. He last appeared in Boo Killebrew's MILLER, MISSISSIPPI (dir. Lee Sunday Evans) at the Long Wharf Theatre, Alexander Borinsky's DING DONG IT'S THE OCEAN (dir. Jeremy Bloom) at JACK, and Dan Giles’ BREEDERS (dir. Jaki Bradley) at the Access Theater.
He also serves as Literary Manager for New Light Theater Project.
As an actor, he is currently rehearsing Yehuda Hyman's THE MAR VISTA which will play at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre in March 2019. He last appeared in Boo Killebrew's MILLER, MISSISSIPPI (dir. Lee Sunday Evans) at the Long Wharf Theatre, Alexander Borinsky's DING DONG IT'S THE OCEAN (dir. Jeremy Bloom) at JACK, and Dan Giles’ BREEDERS (dir. Jaki Bradley) at the Access Theater.
He also serves as Literary Manager for New Light Theater Project.
