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Born and raised in northern New England, Jake grew up reading and watching epic tales and adventures, training in fine art and drawing, and dreaming of fantastical worlds, characters, and stories as they excelled in their studies and crafts, and explored the woods, mountains, and historic beauty of New Hampshire and Maine.
Homeschooled until they were 12, and going on to complete high school in 3 years, Jake was accepted at Cornell to study physics, but decided instead to pursue a creative career in storytelling through visual and film media, starting with an intensive study of the community and educational value of professional Theatre on and off-stage at the University of New Hampshire and the surrounding seacoast area.
Jake moved to New York City in 2013 after falling madly in love, and was modeling and acting as well as assisting on commercial fashion photo shoots and canvassing for the Human Rights Campaign (asking people all over the streets of NYC if they had a minute, and credit card info, for gay rights was a great way to learn the city layout and sometimes when to just turn and walk away holding arms with your daily canvassing partner to take a tour of the Met and look at some Art).
Falling out of love with New York a year later, Jake moved back to New England, got a corporate job dealing with priority credit card customers, dove into the local indie film production world, and took part in a film Production Assistant mentoring program (that they now participate in as a mentor between projects) with the plan to head West.
In 2015, Jake moved to Los Angeles, where they moved up in the Art Department world and have worked with top directors including Dean Fleischer-Camp, Rohan Blair-Mangat, Jewel Coronel, Allie Avital, Malia James, Emma Sydney Menzies, Kinopravda, Rob Meltzer, Cody Critcheloe, Alison-Eve Hammersley, Corey Lubowich, and Grimes, SZA, and Taylor Swift.
When they’re not on set, Jake enjoys music production, organic gardening, hiking, snowboarding, and traveling. They also take part in various mutual aid and volunteer opportunities with the goal of improving their local community.
Jake is of French Canadian, Scottish, Irish, English, and North African ancestry, proudly pansexual, and strives to work with and uplift minority and under-represented people through their projects. They have signed the Change the Lens pledge, helping to ensure the representation of Black filmmakers within the commercial and music video film industry is reflective of the greater population.