Jacob Crumbine's Official Website

Jacob most recently finished shooting the lead role in the AFI film One Never Knows, is currently shooting a short subject film yet untitled, and is working on his latest screenplay.

Jacob has been acting since he was seven years old. His independent film credits include: My Mother's Early Lovers; Nothing Like Dreaming; and the lead in This is a Door.
He has appeared in numerous professional theater productions, among them: Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird; Charley in A View from the Bridge; Howard Blair in Inherit the Wind; Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles; and Captain Bluntschli in Arms and the Man.

In college, Jacob was accepted, while still a Freshman, into Dartmouth’s Theater Foreign Study Program; a highly selective acting/theater training program for Theater majors. During Sophomore year he spent a semester in London studying Drama under the direction of Mike Alfreds. His Junior year he spent a semester volunteering, teaching theater and English to nine year-olds at an impoverished school in Ecuador. After returning to the U.S. he worked in the Dartmouth Admissions Office; interviewing applicants from around the world and devoted much of his time to recruiting lower-income students from underrepresented regions of the United States. During his final semester of college he had the fortune of studying Acting for Comedy with award winning, TV/Broadway director Jerry Zaks. President of his Class, Jacob graduated from Dartmouth with a B.A. in Theater & Political Science.

In addition to acting and writing screenplays, Jacob is fascinated by civics and committed to increasing voter turnout among young adults. Jacob served as the youngest Vermont Delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention and was the top vote getter at the State Convention, which drew more than 800 people from across the state. He joined the 4,353 delegates at the Convention in Boston and appeared on MTV and PBS to discuss youth political participation in the U.S.

A native of New Hampshire, Jacob grew up on a small farm in Plainfield, NH where he and his mother raised sheep, chickens, and other arrant animals. When he was ten Jacob moved with his younger brother, Matthew; his mother, Nancy; and her partner, Laurie, across the Connecticut River to VT. While attending public middle school and high school in Hanover, NH, Jacob put his acting career on hold in order to make time for varsity sports: soccer, ice hockey, and tennis.

Jacob lives in Los Angeles where he acts and writes screenplays.