Leslie Jacobson is a theater director, playwright, and teacher who has spent the past 40 years focusing on using theater to effect societal change, in the US and elsewhere in the world
She is professor of theatre and director of graduate studies fo
...MoreLeslie Jacobson is a theater director, playwright, and teacher who has spent the past 40 years focusing on using theater to effect societal change, in the US and elsewhere in the world.
She is professor of theatre and director of graduate studies for the MFA in classical acting at George Washington University.
For 30 years, she was founding artistic director of Horizons Theater producing plays by women playwrights. Since 2003, she has developed a cultural exchange program with an impoverished community in South Africa, using theater to address issues in this community.
Jacobson has won awards for her theater work, and was a Fulbright senior research fellow to Australia in 2008, with a focus on creating exchange with the work of Australian women playwrights. That fellowship resulted in Jacobson’s stage adaptation of Vanishing Point, a verse novel by Australian author Jeri Kroll.
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