TOM JACOBSON has had more than 100 productions of his plays, including Plunge at Son of Semele Ensemble, Tar at Playwrights Arena, Mexican Day at Rogue Machine Theatre
Company, Sperm at Circle X Theatre Company, The Orange Grove at Playwrights
Arena, and the award-winning Bunbury, Tainted Blood, Ouroboros, and The Friendly
Hour at The Road Theatre Company. The Twentieth-Century Way premiered at The
Theatre @ Boston Court (five Ovation Award nominations, four Los Angeles Drama
Critic's Circle nominations, one GLAAD Award nomination, Fringe Festival Award for
Outstanding Production of a Play, PEN Center Award for Drama) and moved Off
Broadway to Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Making Paradise: The West Hollywood
Musical was produced by Cornerstone Theater Company (Critic's Choice in Back Stage
West). He has been a co-literary manager of Boston Court, a founding member of
Playwrights Ink, and a board member of Cornerstone and Boston Court. Recent
productions include the world premieres of The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) at Circle
X and House of the Rising Son at Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA (Critic's Choice in Back
Stage West and Los Angeles Times, nominated for a GLAAD Award and winner of two
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards), Captain of the Bible Quiz Team at Rogue
Machine (Top Ten Stage Raw, Drama Critic’s Circle Award), The Devil’s Wife at
Skylight Theatre, and Walking to Buchenwald at Open Fist. Film: Prairie Sonata (based
on The Friendly Hour). Opera: Hopscotch, commissioned by The Industry.