Leonard Jacobs

LEONARD JACOBS is a New York-based arts journalist, critic, author, and arts administrator, and the author of 10 plays, with credits directing 40 productions. He has served as executive director of the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, a multidisciplinary nonprofit in southeast Queens, New York, since 2020.

Jacobs was named among the Arts & Culture Power 100 and has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who. He holds a Master of Arts in theater history and dramaturgy from CUNY Hunter College and a bachelor’s degree from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

When not writing, Jacobs serves as founder and editor emeritus of The Clyde Fitch Report, a blog and curated opinion site at the intersection of arts and politics.

Leonard lives in New York.

Leonard Jacobs’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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