Mishy Jacobson

Photo by David Goddard

REVIEWS

for Mishy Jacobson in "Ada and the Engine" by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Debra Wise

“In Mishy Jacobson's vibrant, all-out performance, Ada is a mind on fire and eager for the thrill of discovery when we first meet her at age 18.”

— Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

“Now, shared intellectual excitement is not necessarily the easiest state to communicate onstage, but Jacobson and Arciniegas make that connection palpable.”

— Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

"Jacobson, in a breath-taking debut at Central Square Theater, is a revelation as Ada. She beautifully captures her free spirit, intellectual intensity and vulnerability as a Victorian wife. Jacobson convincingly speaks as Ada of connections between music and math as well as her algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine."

—Jules Becker, South End News

"Mishy Jacobson is engaging as the eccentric, rambunctiously curious Ada in whom art and science have apparently converged; she plays a mean piano onstage.”

— Joyce Kulhawik, Emmy Award-winning Arts and Entertainment Critic, President Boston Theater Critics Association

“Mishy Jacobson is a revelation: charming, brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking (and a good pianist!).”

— David Foss

"As Ada, Mishy Jacobson shines!...The actress evokes her character’s lively nature: fun, strong-willed, and self-confident. Her mathematical genius is simply a gift — no scenes of hard study necessary.”

— David Greenham, The Arts Fuse

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MISHY is a multi-hyphenate artist and classically trained actor experienced in new play development. On stage, Mishy has appeared as the eponymous role in Ada and the Engine by Lauren Gunderson at Central Square Theater, Allegory written and directed by Sammi Cannold (Evita at A.R.T. and STC, How to Dance in Ohio on Broadway fall 2023) and Emily Maltby (Evita at A.R.T. and STC) with music by Arianna Afsar (Hamilton) at La Jolla Playhouse (Without Walls), and the eponymous role in Coriolanus directed by Benjamin Curns in repertory with The Winter's Tale directed by Sara Holdren at Shakespeare at Stratford. Select additional credits include: Olney Theatre Center/The Thanksgiving Play (Understudy); The O'Neill Theatre Center (NTI)/Sit with Us (dir. Oliver Butler), A Musical History of the Modern Motor Vehicle (dir. Tristen Moseley), An Adaptation of the Oresteia (dir. Jack Tamburri); Ovalhouse Theater (Off West-End, London)/Under Milk Wood (dir. Hugh Wooldridge). For Mishy's full resume, please contact her representation.

Mishy worked intensively on new play development during the 2017 National Playwrights Conference (NPC) and National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) at the Eugene O’Neill Theater center where she acted in staged readings with the NTI Theatermakers. She was also an apprentice for new plays, including “Queens,” written by the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in drama and recent Tony Nominee, Martyna Majok, and directed by Danya Taymor. Mishy worked with Tina Packer (Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, author and performer of Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare's Female Characters) on developing Honor, Shame, and Violence: A Shakespeare Anthology Project, for which she played Juliet. Mishy produced The Renaissance Reborn with the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Ty Jones (Producing Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem and NAACP and OBIE Award Winner) and Carl Cofield (Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Chair of NYU Grad Acting).

Mishy has studied with some of the most respected teachers of acting in America and abroad, including the late great John Barton. She has also trained privately with many current and former Yale School of Drama faculty, including Christopher Bayes, Grace Zandarski, Anne Tofflemire, Peter Francis James, Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Julie Foh, Jessica Wolf, and Ron Carlos. Mishy is also an alumni of the British American Drama Academy's (BADA) Midsummer in Oxford (in association with the Yale School of Drama) and London Theatre Program (in association with Sarah Lawrence), The National Theater Institute (NTI) at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Shakespeare & Company's Summer Training Institute, and Shakespeare Academy at Stratford.

Dedicated to human rights and to creating anti-racist theatre, Mishy is also the researcher, writer, and editor of the annual report on The Cities for CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) for The United Nations' Commission on The Status of Women (CSW). Her research is sponsored by the Women's Intercultural Network (WIN). Mishy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston College where she was a member of the Honors Program. She has spent the past few years studying clown intensively with Christopher Bayes (Head of Physical Acting, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale), with whom she also interned.

Mishy is also a passionate visual artist, writer, photographer, and singer who studied classical piano for 14+ years at the Levine School of Music and with Juilliard alum and world-class pianist, Jose Ramos-Santana.