Tom Jacobson

When he discovers he is only a fictitious character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Bunbury joins forces with Rosaline, Romeo’s never-seen obsession from Romeo and Juliet. Together, they win back their loves and change the world by changing classic literature.

A Lutheran minister fresh out of seminary returns home to rural Minnesota for Christmas and finds an epiphany. Winner of a Drama Critic’s Circle Award.

The true story of two actors who hired themselves out to the Long Beach Police Department in 1914 to entrap "social vagrants" in public restrooms. Thirty-one men were arrested, and the ensuing scandal led to an ordinance against "oral sodomy" in California.

This annotated true story of the first race riot in Los Angeles history challenges the notion of history itself. As diverse a population in 1871 as today converges on Nigger Alley in response to a tong war over a woman and lynches 19 Chinese men and boys. Where does revenge end?

Based on the actual minutes of a women’s club formed in rural South Dakota in 1934, this poignant comedy charts 70 years of personal and national history, from skinning skunks and julebukking in the 30s to restoring native prairie in the new millennium.

Archeologists discover an unknown Greek play and other secrets in the ruins of Pompeii that threaten to set in motion a modern apocalypse. Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.

UCLA or NYU? Seduction and betrayal or self-sacrificing love? Otis is stuck between two coasts and his two gay uncles, in the middle of an America living in terror. Choosing a grad school was never this hard.

A small Lutheran choir in its death-throes provides the backdrop for this Chekhovian warning of the impending doom of mainline Protestantism in America. Laughter through tears with nice lemon bars.

Two American couples get caught in a chronological palindrome on a trip to Italy. Stigmata, alchemy, adultery and St. Catherine of Siena’s severed head plague a nun and a minister in this circular love story that is a comedy if performed forward and a tragedy if performed backward.

Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI. He seduces Marie Antoinette and sets the king on a path to destroy France and ultimately humankind. A tragicomedy in rhymed couplets.

Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller.

Christopher Marlowe, sixteenth-century author of Doctor Faustus, was murdered at the age of 29. This tragicomedy speculates that his death was tied to his scandalous play about the relationship between Jesus and the disciple John.

A queer Los Angeles couple plunges into the surprising history of LGBTQ+ people in Oklahoma, including a two-spirit Choctaw (1905) and a gay mayor (1964).

The true story of the most famous poltergeist in American history; it terrorized a Tennessee farm family in 1820. Theatricality and psychological exploration combine to make this folk tale more than just a ghost story about the only poltergeist known to have committed murder. A musical, believe it or not!

Adapted from Menander, this play tells the Electra story from the point of view of Clytemnestra, a brilliant woman with a biting wit. The funniest Greek tragedy you've ever seen! Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.

Five gay men in a Christian “change” program struggle with spirituality and desire in this comedy-drama, with devastating consequences. Ironies abound in a program that accomplishes the opposite of its aims.

In 1938 Leni Riefenstahl went to Hollywood to find American distribution for her award-winning film, Olympia. Only one studio head would meet with her: Walt Disney. An astonishing true story of betrayal, Nazi propaganda and cartoons.

A lonely college professor finds sex, danger and romance on the Internet in this comedy the Los Angeles Times called “dazzling” and the L.A. Weekly called “menacingly funny.”

A handsome, wealthy landowner who woos three sisters isn’t what he seems. But neither are they. A harrowing comedy that goes to hell.

Five medieval German nuns fight Martin Luther’s Reformation by staging mystery plays based on the Biblical Apocrypha. A comedy that breaks taboos and religious relics.

Torn between his Midwestern parents and the Beverly Hills owners of an unknown Caravaggio Hanging of Judas, Tim rediscovers himself while making the art history discovery of the century. Imagine your own mother on the Worst Dressed Women’s List.

When Doug’s wife sends him to a masseur, he goes on a dangerous journey of self-discovery deep into his own heart and soul. The strangest things go on in Doug’s head during massage—but not nearly as strange as what the masseur is planning.

When Trent brings Felix home to New Orleans to meet his father and homophobic grandfather, the family’s demons come slithering into the light. Watchful ghosts, sinister hustlers, and a myriad of parasites lead Felix on a Southern Gothic journey to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.

A young assassin seeks clues to his origin and discovers a secret that changes the world. Pure evil pursues impure good in this irreverent verse drama about the ultimate action hero.

An American professor pursuing a lost letter by E.M. Forster disappears in India, provoking a manhunt across three millennia in a play within a play within a play within a play within a play.

A solo musical tribute to a very unconventional mother with eight new Christmas carols.

A middle-aged woman struggles with her suspicion that her mother was murdered by her aunt. A comedy/drama with Jello.

Not even the eruption of Mount Vesuvius can stop an inventive and theatrical Roman family from putting on their production of a lost Greek classic, Menander's Clytemnestra. The show must go on! Part of The Vesuvius Prophecies trilogy.

An American journalist uses an interview with Ho Chi Minh as cover for a secret mission to retrieve a captured pilot with a secret mission of his own.

In 1936 the Italian Fascist government destroyed more than 1000 "offensive" photographic negatives taken by the renowned Wilhelm von Gloeden in Taormina in the late 19th century. But the interrogation of one of the boys in the photographs--now an old man--reveals an even more heartbreaking history.

An international art exhibition in Thailand goes hilariously but poignantly awry when one of the American artists misbehaves so badly all the other artists turn on her.

A modern African-American academic plunges into a 400 year-old intrigue when he finds a 16th-century Italian diary that mentions William Shakespeare. Monks, pirates, eunuchs and actors conspire to rewrite literary history.

Spanning more than 30 years, this comedy-drama follows two life-paths of a woman who must decide whether to marry her fiancé after she finds out he’s slept with men. A palindrome play with two endings and two beginnings.

The Odyssey re-created in the sauna of a Koreatown gym.

Two siblings and their spouses spar over the family farm outside the town that 100 years earlier was the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis’ novel Main Street. The fictitious past predicts the actual present until the novel and real life converge hilariously.

When Schiller and Arjay take Schiller’s parents to Europe, both couples learn what it means to be American in a world that no longer admires the U.S. Guinea pigs playing cricket, dead bodies that talk, and an unexpected trip to a concentration camp lead to a shocking yet poignant conclusion. Nominated for a Stage Raw Award.