Jake Smith is a theatre director who currently serves as the Artistic Director and CEO of Eastern Angles, the touring theatre company for the East of England. His credits as a director include Stones in His Pockets, The Deep (Eastern Angles), Into the Woods (Southwark Elephant, NYMT), Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage), The Crooked Spire The Musical (Pomegranate Theatre), The Wasp (Customs House), Off the Wall (Hadrian’s Wall 1900), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (UK Tour), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Northern Stage & UK Tour), A Christmas Carol (Chichester Festival Theatre), West End Girls (Live Theatre), It's a Wonderful Life, Goodnight Mister Tom, Little Women (East Riding Theatre), I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Off-West End Award for Best Director - Finborough Theatre), Andy Capp The Musical (Finborough Theatre), The Nutcracker Re-Miced (Durham Gala), The Tempest, As You Like It, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet (Petersfield Shakespeare Festival) and The Buried Moon (Rose Playhouse, Theatre Royal Winchester & Tour). Credits as an Assistant, Associate and Resident Director include, Aspects of Love (West End), Back to the Future The Musical (Manchester Opera House), The Height of the Storm (West End & UK Tour), Breakfast at Tiffany's (West End & UK Tour), The Last Ship The Musical (Northern Stage & UK Tour), For Services Rendered, Miss Julie, Black Comedy, Way Upstream, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Gypsy, Pitcairn (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Stevie (Hampstead Theatre). Jake has held positions as Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre, developing new work for the venue and was invited by the National Theatre to their Directors Programme in 2017. Jake worked as a Trainee Director at Chichester Festival Theatre (2014 - 2016) under the tutelage of Jonathan Church, where he assisted directors such as Jonathan Kent, Howard Davies, Nadia Fall, Max Stafford Clark and Jonathan Church.

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