ACTING CREDITS, BIO AND RESUME

Member SAG-AFTRA

Hair: Brown

Weight: 230lbs

Eyes: Hazel

Hight: 6’2”

Vocal: Baritone

THEATRE

The Selfish Giant: Puppeteer SUNY Ulster: Quimby Theatre. Director. Stephen Balantzian

STUDENT FILM CREDITS

The Chase

Director: Jack Huppert

Role: Killer

Tell Tale Heart

Director: Jack Huppert

Role: Tenant

How to Break Up With Someone

Director: Harris Kumer

Role: David Rosenfeld

Keeping You Near

Director: Arianna Carlomagno

Role: Tom

The Cartoonist

Director: Liz Adams

Role: Alien Lawer

The Tell Tale Heart

Director: Abby Webb

Role: Detective 1

‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ A Short

Director: Stephen Jeong

Role: Uncle Billy

Dying For a Date

Director: Arianna Carlomagno

Role: Agent

Project Alice

Director: Fiona Seabrook

Role: Mad Hatter

INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION

Witches & Cowboys

Directors: Bradley Jurain & Jacob Jurain

Role: Bo

LEFT: Jacob Jurain

BELOW: Jacob as Bo in Witches & Cowboys featurette

At the age of fifteen, Jacob started his college career at Ulster County Community College as an Early Enrollment Student, where he first worked on two college theater productions. Jacob began his acting career at sixteen when he started working at a variety of small theater shows in and around his hometown of New Paltz, NY. His hard work and dedication to the craft paid off and it secured him work on many student films at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 2021, at the age of twenty, Jacob received his bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in theatre.

With a great start as an actor in the theater arts, he began working steady as a background performer for network television shows and independent feature films shot in the area, such as 'Poker Face,’ ‘White House Plumbers,’ ‘Smile 2,’ ‘Theater Camp,’ with Ben Platt, ‘Mr and Mrs Smith,’ with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, and ‘Pretty Little Liars (Original Sin).’

Jacob has written, directed and shot many of his own short films.

Jacob's passion for the dramatics solidified when he was thirteen and saw his first broadway show -- Les Miérables. The feelings that experience evoked inspired him to strive to become an actor and be able to bring some of those same emotions he had felt to others. These experiences have all contributed to the multi dimensional approach that he uses towards his craft. As he has shown since his early teenage years and has never waivered, Jacob understands the amount of work and dedication it will take, and has a goal to one day to make acting his full time job.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Dialects: Standard British, Australian, New Zealand, Russian, German, Southern American. Can speak limited Russian, plays guitar (acoustic and electric), plays ukulele, singer (Baritone), cartwheels, can laugh on command, painter, karate (Isshinryu), can stay up for 24 hours, hand sewing, machine sewing, word working, was in a scout troop, can swim, can do a handstand, can whistle, has experience sketching and drawing a model and still life, has limited experience carving foam, can climb a rope, can do pull-ups, can do pushups.

TRAINING

Performing and acting: Stephen Balantzian, Brendan Burk, Cathrine Doherty

Scenic Painting: Jane Snow and Joseph Forbes

Voice/Guitar: Pete Crotty

Isshinryu Karate: Maury Levitz

(Last update 8/7/2024)