Jacob Sexton

Jacob Sexton is a theatre director and playwright of new and experimental plays. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaborations, "live cinema", and multimedia aesthetics. Jacob graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, where he studied under Anne Bogart, Katie Mitchell, David Henry Hwang, and Charles L Mee, among others

He has staged new work at Actors Theatre of Louisville, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre / Youngblood, Primary Stages, the New Ohio, the Brick, the Tank, Lethe Lounge, TheaterLab, and the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared. Jacob has also assisted directors Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Jon Jory, Lila Neugebauer, and most recently Michael Mayer on John Logan's Swept Away (music + lyrics by The Avett Brothers) at...

Jacob Sexton is a theatre director and playwright of new and experimental plays. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaborations, "live cinema", and multimedia aesthetics. Jacob graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, where he studied under Anne Bogart, Katie Mitchell, David Henry Hwang, and Charles L Mee, among others

He has staged new work at Actors Theatre of Louisville, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre / Youngblood, Primary Stages, the New Ohio, the Brick, the Tank, Lethe Lounge, TheaterLab, and the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared. Jacob has also assisted directors Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Jon Jory, Lila Neugebauer, and most recently Michael Mayer on John Logan's Swept Away (music + lyrics by The Avett Brothers) at Berkeley Rep.

Jacob is a former Artistic Apprentice with Page 73 Productions, Workshop Assistant with Clubbed Thumb, and Directing Intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Directors Unit @ the Actors Studio. Co-Artistic Director of STRANGE FACE Theatre Company (with Evie Mason and Max Singer). Associate Member of SDC. MFA: Columbia. BA: Fordham. www.jacobmsexton.com @basedonnothing

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Scripts

Hurricane

by Jacob Sexton

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
experimental,
mystery/thriller,
romantic comedy

Set in 2012, HURRICANE follows the staff of a West Village restaurant that refuses to close despite the oncoming Superstorm Sandy. When they are left stranded in a blacked-out lower Manhattan with more wine than they could possibly consume, they are left with no choice but to party.. As their sexually diverse perspectives collide, the play questions how we define Relationships, what it means to “get together,”...

Set in 2012, HURRICANE follows the staff of a West Village restaurant that refuses to close despite the oncoming Superstorm Sandy. When they are left stranded in a blacked-out lower Manhattan with more wine than they could possibly consume, they are left with no choice but to party.. As their sexually diverse perspectives collide, the play questions how we define Relationships, what it means to “get together,” and whether romance and sex are, in fact, synonymous. HURRICANE is an asexual identity play - or rather, it's a play about intimacy and contemporary dating from an asexual perspective.

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