Jake Brasch

Jake Brasch (he/they) is a writer + actor + composer + clown and a graduating second-year playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. The world premiere of their play The Reservoir will be presented in 2025 as a co-production between the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse. Jake is the winner of the Kennedy Center’s 2024 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group, a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist, and a recent graduate from EST/Youngblood. His work has been developed by Ars Nova, New York Stage and Film, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Farm Theater, ArtHouse Inkubator, Letter of Marque Theater Company, Eden Theater Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. He is under commission from the EST/Sloan Project and the Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project. He is a proud graduate of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, the Farm Theater’s Development Workshop, and the LAByrinth Intensive Ensemble. As a composer, Jake has written music and lyrics for several films, plays, and podcasts. He works as a birthday party clown in the tristate area and is developing a series based on his clowning career. He holds a BFA from NYU Tisch (Experimental Theatre Wing/New Studio on Broadway).