Sally Jacobs

Jacobs designed and directed theatre since 1960. Designs for Peter Brook included Theatre of Cruelty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marat/Sade, US, Antony and Cleopatra and Conference of the Birds. While in the US she designed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and New York, working with Joseph Chaikin, Joe Papp, Richard Foreman, Edward Parone and Gordon Davidson. Opera design includes Die Fledermaus (Paris Opera), Turandot (ROH, Wembley Arena) and Fidelio, Eugene Onegin and Die Soldaten (ENO). Directing/designing work includes Oedipus at Colonus (Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles); Last Tango on the North Circular by Peter Weigold; The War in Heaven by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard; The Dancing Room, co-devised with Kate Flatt (BBC); Me You Us Them, a performance piece in response to the Iraq war; and a staged version of Invisible Cities. She was Senior Lecturer in stage design at the Central School of Art and Design, the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths University, where she was also a Fellow. In the US she taught at the California Institute of the Arts, New York University, The Actors Studio and Rutgers University. Her Archive was acquired by the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Houghton Library, Harvard University. She died in 2020.