Jasmine Brooks

Jasmine Brooks

Jasmine Brooks is a director and producer and a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and the Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret’s 2025-26 season. Before attending graduate school, Jasmine was based in Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked at Company One Theatre as the Artistic Associate and National New Play Network Producer in Residence, and at SpeakEasy Stage as The Boston Project Coordinator. Jasmine has directed new play workshops with the National New Play Network, Playwrights’ Center, San Diego Repertory Theatre, and more. Jasmine is a 2025 recipient of the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program. At Yale, Jasmine has directed Macbeth, which she adapted with Tia Smith, and Charity by Matthew Chong for the Langston Hughes Festival of New Work. Other directing credits include seven methods of killing kylie jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones and Pride Of Doves by Doug Robinson (Yale Cabaret); The Effect by Lucy Prebble (UNATC: Bucharest, Romania); Bite Me by Eliana Pipes (NNPN National Showcase of New Plays);

Truth or Consequences by Andrew Siañez-De La O (Fresh Ink Theatre); and Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage (Silverthorne Theatre Company). Her Associate/Assistant Directing credits include Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (The Huntington, dir. Lili-Anne Brown), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith (American Repertory Theatre, dir. Taibi Magar), Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye by Lydia Diamond (The Huntington, dir. Awoye Timpo), BLKS by Aziza Barnes (Speakeasy Stage, dir. Tonasia Jones), Period Piece by Various Writers (Visceral Entertainment, dir. Karen Carpenter), can i touch it? by Francisca Da Silveira (NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, dir. Nicole Watson), Wolf Play by Hansol Jung (Company One Theatre, dir. Summer L. Williams), and Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (Company One Theatre, dir. Michelle Aguillon). Jasmine holds a B.F.A. In theater arts from Boston University, School of Theatre.