Tanja Jacobs

Biography

Tanja Jacobs is an award winning director and actress. Recent directing credits include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody at University of Waterloo; George F. Walker’s held-over comedy Orphans for the Czar for Crow’s Theatre (and a 2022 Dora nominee for Outstanding Production); G.B. Shaw’s Getting Married for the Shaw Festival; Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both for Canadian Stage Company’s annual Shakespeare in High Park; The Model Apartment for Harold Green Jewish Theatre; Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information (co-directed) at the Berkeley Street Theatre for Canadian Stage. For Soulpepper Theatre, Tanja directed the ferocious comedy La Bete. Tanja has been a frequent collaborator with director Chris Abraham and with the documentary theatre company Theatre Porte Parole. She is the co-creator with Philip McKee of Bloody Family, an original adaptation of The Oresteia. For her work as an actress in Toronto, Tanja has received 11 Dora nominations and 3 Dora awards. She is the 2018 winner of the Gina Wilkinson Prize for a female director. In 2017 she completed her MFA in Stage Direction at York University in Collaboration with Canadian Stage.