Jacob Marx Rice is a multi-award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been produced in over fifteen cities across three continents, won the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, been nominated for four Off West End Awards, and been published by Bloomsbury/Methuen, the most prestigious theatrical publishing house in England.
His film adaptation of The Magician of Auschwitz was recently announced in Deadline and will begin production in 2025 directed by Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or winner Jaco Van Dormael. He wrote the short film See Through starring Tony-nominee Lauren Ridloff (The Sound of Metal,), which has been featured at the Austin Film Festival, the Cannes Short Film Corner, and festivals across the globe. Jacob has developed screenplays with major production companies, including Imagine Entertainment and Anonymous Content, as well as directors Michael Tyburski, Henry Scholfield, and Pierre Morrel.
Jacob has won the Sloan Science Screenwriting Award, a Sloan Science Playwriting Commission, the Faculty Award from NYU Tisch Film School, and the Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He has a degree from Columbia University in Astrophysics and an MFA from NYU Tisch in Dramatic Writing.
