Jacob Brown is a scenic design professor at Troy University. A native of Bakersfield, California, he joins Troy after teaching at New World School of the Arts/ Miami Dade College (Wolfson) and more than a decade of working in scenic design, technical direction, and production management.
 

He holds an MFA in Production Design & Technology from Ohio University (2018). His honors include the Richard Wagner Stipendium from the New York Wagner Society, which took him to the Bayreuth Festival, and the 2021 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar honorarium on LGBTQ+ Histories of the Holocaust from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Jacob was recently nominated for Outstanding Scenic Design at the 49th Annual Carbonell Awards for The Mother at Zoetic Stage. He has also been nominated for Best Scenic Design of a Play or Musical (Professional) on BroadwayWorld.com for Over the River and Through the Woods at Cortland Repertory Theatre.
 

Jacob's goal is to extend theatre to communities everywhere, giving people from different socioeconomic backgrounds the chance to come together in collaborative artistic expression. In the classroom and the shop, he brings that same collaborative approach to training the next generation of designers and technicians.