Jake Arky is the Program Manager for The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company 

and an artist in residence for The Geffen Playhouse after serving as the

Associate Director of Education-Playwriting for TheatreWorks | Silicon Valley.

Theatrically trained at the University of Utah’s Youtheatre Conservatory, Jake

began writing and producing original plays before completing his Bachelor of

Fine Arts in dramatic writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

He is the author of the plays Brothers of Emery, The Green Flash, The Birthday

Girl, Little Perfections, and Erasers. Short stories include Video Tape Sleepover,

The Green Flash, and #deathies, all published by SSWA Press. Jake is a 2014

National Playwriting Conference finalist with The O’Neill Center, as well as a

New American Voices Award recipient at Landing Theatre Company and the

Great Plains Theatre Conference.

Jake has worked with The Cherry Lane Theatre, The La Jolla Playhouse, The

Playwrights Project of San Diego, ’06 Ensemble, Dragon Theater, The 68 Cent

Crew (NYC), PianoFight, and Cat & Owl Theatre. Film work includes production

assistant credits on the films Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Sunshine Cleaning

(2007), and the Academy Award-winning Little Miss Sunshine (2005). His original

comedic television series, Open (2017) and Amateurs (2018), have been

developed by CineStory.

Jake co-founded So Say We All: a non-profits arts production and education

organization specializing in the literary and storytelling arts. He regularly

performs stories on stage with The Moth, RISK!, Fireside Storytelling, Busting

Out, and the Oakland Story Slam.