Jake (he/him) is the founding Artistic Director of Matchstick Theatre, Assistant Festival Director with the Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival of Working People and the Arts, and Coordinator of the Nova Scotia High School Drama Festival. With Matchstick, he has directed Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, Catherine Banks’ Bitter Rose and Bone Cage, Don Hannah’s The Woodcutter, John Mighton’s The Little Years, Michael Melski’s Joyride and Henricus Gielis’ King of the Goats. In 2018, Jake assistant directed two plays at Neptune Theatre: Mary-Colin Chisholm’s Half-Cracked and Drew Hayden Taylor’s In a World Created by a Drunken God. In 2021, he directed Matchstick’s readings of David French’s Leaving Home and Joan MacLeod’s Toronto, Mississippi. In 2022, he directed a site-specific production of Annie Baker’s play The Aliens behind Propeller Brewing with his new collective Theatre in Space. At the University of Alberta, Jake has directed: Geraldine Aron’s The Donahue Sisters, Mike Barlett’s Bull, Annie Baker’s The Flick, and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (trans. Anne Carson).