Chris Jakob is a queer, non-binary actor born + raised in Detroit,MI, floating between Detroit + New York City.

Holding a BA in Theatre from University of Detroit Mercy, they are an interdisciplinary performance artist (actor, singer, dancer, poet, playwright, filmmaker, and teaching artist) focused on the creation of fresh, thought-provoking, experimental work. Chris is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, and proud to be ensemble members of A Host of People (AHOP) and Shakespeare in Detroit (SiD). They have also performed at Detroit Repertory Theatre, The Ringwald Theatre, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, Planet Ant, and Matrix Theatre (where they are also a teaching artist). Recent work includes The Tempest as Trinculo with SiD at Campus Martius Summer 2023,  the world premiere of Dot’s Home Live as 4D with AHOP in Detroit, the world premiere of Cleopatra Boy with AHOP in Detroit, previews of his new solo-performance-choreopoem LOGOS at Sidewalk Festival 2019, Cleopatra Boy with AHOP at FURY Factory Festival 2018 in San Francisco, the world premiere of Neither There, Nor Here with AHOP, the premiere, and tour of their play I, Too, Sing America, produced by the Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as an artist residency at Cleveland Public Theatre and the North American Cultural Lab (New York). Art is long, life is short.