Leonard Jacobs has been a theater practitioner, critic, and journalist since 1990. He is the National Theatre Editor of Back Stage, the trade publication for American actors, and chief critic for Back Stage and the New York Press; he was also the founding editor of Theatermania.com. As an arts and culture writer and editor, he has contributed to American Theatre, the Hollywood Reporter, the Village Voice, Kirkus Reviews, the Sondheim Review, and Roundabout Theatre Company's Front & Center, and is represented as a contributor and assistant to the editor for the 2007 Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. The author of 10 plays and director of 40, he is a Tony voter and a member of the Drama Desk and American Theatre Critics Association; chairs the New York Innovative Theatre Awards; adjudicates new scripts for the New York International Fringe Festival and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; teaches yearly as part of the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill; and has guest lectured at Princeton and Yale. A specialist in late-nineteenth and early twentieth century American theater, he graduated from New York University in the twentieth century and will earn his M.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York, in the twenty-first.
