Jakob Spruce

​Jakob Spruce is a multidisciplinary theatre artist born and raised in the heart of Appalachia. Some of his produced stage works include Winnie-the-Pooh, The Fight, What We Have, A Dancer’s Elegy, Our Millennial Parents, and more. For the screen, Jakob’s produced work includes What I Want, Donkey Riding, and Gamers Unite. His work has been produced at festivals including the Raymond Laine Memorial One Act Festival and Lights Up! 10-Minute Play Festival and at schools such as Capital High School and Huntington High School in West Virginia. Awards for his film What I Want include: Best Narrative Feature, Appalachian Queer Film Festival and honorable mention, Virginia Queer Film Festival.

Jakob holds an MFA degree in Writing for the Screen & Stage at Point Park University and an honors BA...

​Jakob Spruce is a multidisciplinary theatre artist born and raised in the heart of Appalachia. Some of his produced stage works include Winnie-the-Pooh, The Fight, What We Have, A Dancer’s Elegy, Our Millennial Parents, and more. For the screen, Jakob’s produced work includes What I Want, Donkey Riding, and Gamers Unite. His work has been produced at festivals including the Raymond Laine Memorial One Act Festival and Lights Up! 10-Minute Play Festival and at schools such as Capital High School and Huntington High School in West Virginia. Awards for his film What I Want include: Best Narrative Feature, Appalachian Queer Film Festival and honorable mention, Virginia Queer Film Festival.

Jakob holds an MFA degree in Writing for the Screen & Stage at Point Park University and an honors BA in Theatre Arts (Tech/Design) from West Virginia Wesleyan College with minors in Musical Theatre, Gender Studies, and English. Currently, Jakob serves as the theatre director at Capital High School in West Virginia where he works with students to create safe and inclusive environments that allow for positive, collaborative artistic expression to flourish using ethos of restorative justice and theatrical intimacy.

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Scripts

The Fight

by Jakob Spruce

Cast Size
9
Genre
drama

On the night of their dress rehearsal, the cast of “The Wolves” has their dressing room vandalized by a mysterious person. They must come together to do what’s right for each other while trying to fight the real problems teenage girls face every day. Get angry with them. Get angry at them. Whatever you do, don’t give up the fight.

Content warning for discussions of sexual assault.

On the night of their dress rehearsal, the cast of “The Wolves” has their dressing room vandalized by a mysterious person. They must come together to do what’s right for each other while trying to fight the real problems teenage girls face every day. Get angry with them. Get angry at them. Whatever you do, don’t give up the fight.

Content warning for discussions of sexual assault.

Winnie-the-Pooh

by Jakob Spruce

Cast Size
9
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
young audiences

Bedtime is the perfect time to take a trip into the Hundred Acre Wood! Join Christopher Robin as he adventures with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and a host of beloved characters through a series of seasonal vignettes. Whether it's Pooh getting stuck, the arrival of a new friend or winter freezing the woods, this Appalachian adaptation of A. A. Milne's iconic work (that can be customized to where you live) reads like one...

Bedtime is the perfect time to take a trip into the Hundred Acre Wood! Join Christopher Robin as he adventures with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and a host of beloved characters through a series of seasonal vignettes. Whether it's Pooh getting stuck, the arrival of a new friend or winter freezing the woods, this Appalachian adaptation of A. A. Milne's iconic work (that can be customized to where you live) reads like one big, delightful, warm-and-fuzzy hug—kinda like Pooh bear himself.

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What We Have

by Jakob Spruce

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
drama,
fantasy,
period

A lesbian couple in New York City works through their current relationship problems by exploring one of their past lives together in Victorian-era England.

Content warning for alcohol and sexual content.

A lesbian couple in New York City works through their current relationship problems by exploring one of their past lives together in Victorian-era England.

Content warning for alcohol and sexual content.

A Dancer's Elegy

by Jakob Spruce

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama,
movement/physical,
young audiences

While warming up for her final college dance performance, Julia laments about her past through the lens of Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)."

Content warning for discussions of eating disorders, mental health issues, and hospitalization.

While warming up for her final college dance performance, Julia laments about her past through the lens of Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)."

Content warning for discussions of eating disorders, mental health issues, and hospitalization.

Our Millennial Parents

by Jakob Spruce

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
political,
satire,
young audiences

Four extremely online, gen-z cousins bunk up in a cabin for the night when suddenly the power goes out, and they find themselves locked inside...without their phones!

Four extremely online, gen-z cousins bunk up in a cabin for the night when suddenly the power goes out, and they find themselves locked inside...without their phones!