Jacob Musgrove is a queer writer and director based in New York City. Their directing credits include Someone Else's Child by Kate Crabtree, which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2025 New York Fringe Festival, #Grief_and_other-things by Jacob at the 2025 NYC Rogue Theatre Festival, Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig at Princeton Summer Theatre, Lungs by Duncan MacMillan and Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl at Southern Plains Productions, and Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (adapted by Jacob) at Carnegie Mellon University. Jacob serves as a Resident Playwright at Chickenshed NYC, where he has penned 5 interactive, educational, musical puppet shows for young audiences as a part of their Adventures series in addition to working with a team of writers to create original devised musicals as well as adapted scripts from Chickenshed UK's canon and Shakespeare's original works. 

 

He is currently in pre-production for his debut short film, Soup, producing an online comedy interview show, Art Class, where he talks with other creatives about the industry and their lives, and directing the play Little Lasses by Kate Crabtree in the Soho Playhouse's Lighthouse series.

 

Jacob holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama from Carnegie Mellon University.