Jacob Battista is a Melbourne-based theatre designer and practitioner. Jacob completed a Bachelor of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts. Some of his credits include, Admissions (MTC); Grace, Iphigenia in Splott, Love, Love, Love, Jumpers for Goalposts, Belleville and Out Of The Water (Red Stitch); Hand to God, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and Bad Jews (Vass Theatre Group); Rust and Bone (La Mama Theatre); Burn This (fortyfivedownstairs); Songs for a New World (Blue Saint); MEMBER (Fairly Lucid); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune (Collette Mann/fortyfivedownstairs); The Lonely Wolf (Dirty Pretty Theatre/MTC Neon); Therese Raquin (Dirty Pretty Theatre); Carrie The Musical (Ghost Light); as associate set designer, Shakespeare in Love (Melbourne Theatre Company). Jacob was a recipient of a 2016 Besen Family Scholarship at Malthouse Theatre working with Marg Horwell on Edward II and is also a recipient of an Australia Council ArtStart Grant.