Jake Brasch

(he/they) is a queer, sober, Jewish clown from Colorado and a graduating playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. 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, and a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. They're a proud recent graduate of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood. Jake holds commissions from the EST/Sloan Project and The Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project. BFA from NYU Tisch (Experimental Theatre Wing/New Studio on Broadway).

Plays in development include: Spin (Juilliard, LAByrinth Theatre Company), How to Draw a Triangle (The Recovery Project @ Florida Studio Theatre, NYSAF), Salutations, I'm Creative Dave (Page 73), Trip Around the Sun (South Carolina New Play Festival), and Family Weekend. He is under commission from the EST/Sloan Project and The Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project.

With playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Jake is a Co-Founder of American Sing-Song, a collective that writes and performs filthy hour-long comedic musicals. Their musical GERALDINE: A Foul and Fishy Operetta was presented in 2023 and HOLE! will be presented in 2024 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Jake has written music and lyrics for several films, musicals, plays, and podcasts. They are also developing a Grotowski-based physical dramaturgy pedagogy for playwrights.

Jake has long worked as a birthday party clown throughout the New York Area. He has three brothers, 14 pairs of glasses, and lives in Brooklyn with his brilliant husband Tyler.