Jacob Allen holds a BA in theatre and a BM in vocal performance from Lawrence University, where he received the Theodore F. Cloak Award in Theatre. He recently completed his master's in stage direction at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Steven Daigle and Jonathan Pape.  As an academic professional, Jacob served as Associate Director of Conservatory admissions at Lawrence University and as a cinema technician for the East-Coast-based Flagship Cinemas, whose Web site he managed for ten years. As a director and performer, Jacob has worked extensively throughout the Midwest and New England. Productions include Les Mamelles de Tiresias, For A Look or a Touch, Little Shop of Horrors, The Last Five Years, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, La Traviata, The Consul, Ruddigore, Naughty Marietta, Merrily We Roll Along, Anything Goes, Jekyll and Hyde, Kiss Me, Kate, Children of Eden, and The Winter's Tale.

As an artist, Jacob is an advocate for American Lyric Theatre and Art Song. He has recently performed in the premiere of Lee Hoiby’s This is the Rill Speaking and directed the first staged production of Jake Heggie’s For a Look or a Touch. Albany records has featured him in many recordings of early-American musical theatre as well as foreign operetta in english translation. In 2003, he premiered David Thurmaier’s cycle of songs for baritone, Three American Songs, based on texts by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Edward Arlington Robinson. As a teacher, Jacob is fascinated by the challenges faced by young singers in their development as theatrical performers and is dedicated to the integration of acting and singing.