Originally from the suburbs of New York City, Eric B. Jacobson grew up as a theatre kid. He performed in numerous plays and musicals through high school and college, starring in such roles as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stage Manager in Our Town, and Ocean and Hephaestus in Prometheus Bound. He began writing plays in high school and, in his senior year, he won a county-wide contest for his one-act play, Postcards. He produced a collection of his own one-act plays in college and spent a summer as a literary intern at New Dramatists in New York City. Eric studied playwriting with Philadelphia-based playwright Michael Hollinger and more recently with Minnesota-based playwright Josh Tobiessen. He studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco with Patrick Russell. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric returned to his love of writing, during which time he wrote The Ends: A collection of six short plays (Minnesota Fringe 2021), Unbelievable! (Minnesota Fringe 2022), Reason, and In Your Dreams. He has also written two screenplays and is working on a family drama for the stage. He currently lives in St. Paul with his girlfriend and their two cats, Nora and Fitz.