Jacob Battista is a Melbourne-based theatre designer and practitioner. Jacob completed a Bachelor of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts. Design credits include The Almighty Sometimes, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Admissions (Melbourne Theatre Company); Flake, A Simple Act of Kindness, Grace, Iphigenia in Splott, Love, Love, Love, Jumpers for Goalposts, Belleville and Out Of The Water (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Driftwood, the Musical (Umbrella Productions); 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); Therese Raquin (Dirty Pretty Theatre); Carrie The Musical (Ghost Light); and as associate set designer Bernhardt/Hamlet and 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.