Jacob Basri is a director originally from Berkeley, California and based in New York City. He is an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps, the 2017–18 Van Lier Fellow at Playwrights Horizons, and the 2023–24 Directing Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. He holds an MFA from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he received the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing. Jacob is also an associate artist with Compagnia de’ Colombari. His work has appeared at Ensemble Studio Theater, Rattlestick, Williamstown, The Flea, The Tank, Dixon Place, Bedlam, Atlantic Theater Company, Checkmark, Yale School of Drama, Yale Summer Cabaret, Columbia, and Fault Line.
He has assisted a number of directors including David Cromer, Rebecca Taichman, Lila Neugebauer, Robert O’Hara, Pam MacKinnon, Carl Cofield, and Karin Coonrod.
Recent directing credits include The Woman in Black (Weston Theatre Company), Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner, The Trial of Ubu by Simon Stephens, and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, in a version by Amy Herzog (Atlantic Acting School), Fun Home (Korsa Musical Theatre Company), burnbabyburn by a.k. payne (Yale Summer Cabaret), Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare (Yale Drama), Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (Yale Drama), and littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen (Yale Drama).