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) and Unbelievable! (Minnesota Fringe 2022). He starred in Works in Progress (Minnesota Fringe 2023) and Dream of Me (Minnesota Fringe 2024) and created A Real Piece of Work (Minnesota Fringe 2026), which won two festival awards: Venue Award and Audience Pick. He currently lives in St. Paul with his wife and their two cats, Nora and Fitz.