Education: University of Michigan, BFA

Chess Jakobs

Creative

Education: University of Michigan, BFA

Member, Actors Equity Association

Associate Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Associate Member, Dramatists Guild

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DIRECTOR

Heart of Rock and Roll

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Fiddler on the Roof

In the Red and Brown Water

Spring Awakening

The Dutchman

Assistant Director

Associate Director

Co-Director

Assistant Director

Broadway/James Earl Jones

Off-Broadway/New World Stages

Olney Theatre Center

University of Michigan

Dir. Gordon Greenberg

Dir. Peter Flynn

Dir. Leia Squillace

Dir. Wonza Johnson

Dir. Shenell McCrary

Sunday's Best

A Mother's Love

Dirty Dancing National Tour

Blood at the Root

Imaginary Invalid

Choreographer

Asst. Choreographer

Choreo Assistant

Asst. Choreographer

BET

Bravo

Lionsgate Entertainment

University of Michigan

Prod. Kirk Franklin

Prod. Kandi Burrus

Cho. Michele Lynch

Dir. Stori Ayers

Dir. Daniel Cantor

PRODUCER

Broadway Dreams Tour

Creative Producer

Queer Plus Like Us Podcast

Heather Headley Honors Gala

Creative Producer

Assistant Producer

Fighting AIDS Drag Fundraiser

Producer

Broadway Dreams Foundation

Checkmate Labs

The Plaza Hotel - NYC

University of Michigan

Dir. Amanda Watkins

Prod. Kellan Kryak

Dir. Stafford Arima

Dir. Matt Kunkel

PRODUCTION

Dreamgirls

Casting Director

Dominion Entertainment

Dir. Robert Connor

THEATRE

Fiddler on the Roof

Downstate

A Christmas Carol

Colassal

Me Nobody Knows (Workshop)

Booty Candy (Reading)

Lazar Wolf

Cop/Gio Cover

Schoolmaster

Marcus

William

Sutter

Olney Theatre Center

Steppenwolf Theatre

Dir. Peter Flynn

Dir. Pam MacKinnon

Indiana Repertory Theatre

Dir. Ben Hanna

Alliance Theatre

Dir. Will Davis

Kimmel Center

Dir. Stafford Arima

Dominion Entertainment

Dir. Joaquina Kalukango

TV/FILM

Good Genes

Scott for Now

McDonalds

Lead

Feature

Good Trouble Films

Independent Short

Dir. Ramone Hulet

Dir. Peter Donahue

Commercial

UNIVERSITY

Angels in America

Blood at the Root

Insurrection: Holding History

Henry IV: Part I

Ybor City

Imaginary Invalid

Iphigenia at Aulis

Fuente Ovejuna

Belize

De'Andre

Nat Turner

Owen Glendower

Pedro

Beralde

Old Man

Mengo

University of Michigan

Dir. Daniel Cantor

Dir. Stori Ayers

Dir. Timothy Douglas

Dir. Priscilla Lindsay

Dir. Anita Gonzalez

Dir. Daniel Cantor

Dir. Malcolm Tulip

Dir. Bob Chapel