Reza Jacobs
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| MUSIC DIRECTING | |||
| UnCovered: Dolly Parton | Musical Supervisor | The Musical Stage Company | |
| Fun Home | Musical Director | The Musical Stage Company/Mirvish Productions | |
| UnCovered: Dylan and Springsteen | Musical Director | The Musical Stage Company | |
| Life After | Musical Director | The Musical Stage Company/Canadian Stage | |
| UnCovered: Queen & Bowie | Musical Director | The Musical Stage Company | |
| The Wizard of Oz Band
Treemonisha |
Musical Director
Musical Director |
Young People’s Theatre
Volcano Theatre/Palo Alto Theater/Zellerbach Auditorium |
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| UnCovered: Billy Joel and Elton John | Musical Director | Canadian Stage | |
| London Road | Music Director/Keyboards | Canadian Stage | |
| Falsettos | Music Director/Keyboards | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| *Assassins | Music Director/Keyboards | BirdLand Theatre with Talk is Free Theatre | |
| Sanctuary Song | Music Director/Piano | Theatre Direct and National Arts Centre | |
| Serious Money | Music Director | Shaw Festival Theatre | |
| **Caroline or Change | Music Director/Keyboards | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| Star Chamber | Music Director | Shaw Festival Theatre | |
| The Entertainer | Music Director/Piano | Shaw Festival Theatre | |
| ***A Man of No Importance | Music Director/Keyboard | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| RESIDENCY | |||
| Resident Music Director for Everything Must Go. Andrea Martin’s One Woman Show | Music Director | Andrea Martin | |
| ARRANGING | |||
| Uncovered: Sting and The Police | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| Tapestries (songs of Carole King, James Taylor) | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| The Long and Winding Road (songs of Paul McCartney, John Lennon) | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| Both Sides Now (songs of Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen) | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| Man In The Mirror, (songs of Michael Jackson) | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| Sound of Silence, (songs of Paul Simon) | Arranger/Piano | Acting Up Stage Co | |
| SOUND DESIGN | |||
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Sound Designer | Stratford Festival | |
| Twelfth Night | Sound Designer | Stratford Festival | |
| R-E-B-E-C-C-A | Sound Designer | Theatre Passe Muraille | |
| R-E-B-E-C-C-A | Sound Designer | Blue Balloon Productions | |
| Sia | Sound Designer | Cahoots Theatre | |
| My Granny the Goldfish | Sound Designer | Factory Theatre | |
| Serious Money | Sound Designer | Shaw Festival Theatre | |
| The Madonna Painter | Sound Designer | Factory Theatre | |
| Oedipus Rex | Sound Designer | Classical Theatre Project | |
| The Prince Hamlet | Sound Designer | Why Not Theatre | |
| ACTING | |||
| 2P4H | Actor/Piano | Marquis Entertainment Inc. | |
| 2P4H | Actor/Piano | Centaur Theatre | |
| Same, Same But Different | Actor | Nightswimming Theatre | |
| COMPOSITION | |||
| Bad Shorts | Composer | Bad Hats Theatre | |
| Century Song | Composer | Volcano Theatre | |
| The Cupboard Under The Stairs | Composer | Young People’s Theatre | |
| Alexandria | Composer
(in development, book/lyrics with Andrew Kushnir) |
The Belfry Theatre and Acting Up Stage Co | |
| R-E-B-E-C-C-A | Composer | Blue Balloon Productions | |
| My Granny the Goldfish | Composer | Factory Theatre | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Composer | Classical Theatre Project | |
| Candida, Shaw Festival | Composer | ||
| “Noteworthy” | (one of six collaborators selected to participate) | Acting Up Stage, 2011
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| Shine Your Eye (The Africa Trilogy) | Composer | Luminato Festival, 2010; Canadian Stage, 2011 | |
| Shakuntala | Composer | Pleiades Theatre with Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage Festival | |
| The Madonna Painter | Composer | Factory Theatre | |
| Oedipus Rex | Composer | Classical Theatre Project | |
| Charlie & the Chocolate Factory | Composer | Toronto Youth Theatre | |
| Macbeth | Composer | Classical Theatre Project | |
| The Prince Hamlet
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Composer | Why Not Theatre | |
| AWARDS | |||
| **Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best Music Direction (2012, Caroline, or Change) | |||
| Runner up, Toronto Mayor’s RBC Emerging Artist Award, Toronto Arts Foundation, 2011 | |||
| *Dora Mavor Moore Award (2010) for Best Musical Production of ASSASSINS | |||
| Daryl Roth Award 2006 (for Plastic!, a musical) | |||
| Ontario Arts Council Theatre Creators’ Reserve Grant 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 | |||
| Bound for Broadway VII, 2006 (for Plastic!, a musical) | |||
| ASCAP Foundation Frederick Loewe Award 2004 | |||
| NAMT Festival of New Musicals Songwriter Showcase, 2006 | |||
| NOMINATIONS | |||
| ***Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination (2008) for Best Musical Production. A Man of No Importance | |||
| EDUCATION | |||
| NYU Tisch: MFA in Graduate Musical Theater Writing | |||
| Columbia University, NY: BA in History | |||
| The Curtis Institute of Music: Certificate in Piano Performance | |||
