TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

Jakie Cabe

Adjunct Instructor
BA – Appalachian State University
MFA – Louisiana State University
Actors Equity Association

Jakie is originally from North Carolina where he received his BA in Theatre from Appalachian State University.  He has an MFA in Acting from Louisiana State University where he was a Board of Regents Fellow. While at LSU he was a founding company member of the Swine Palace Theatre led by Barry Kyle of the RSC. For the past 12 years he has been a professional actor, director, teacher, and fight choreographer in the DFW metroplex. 

In DFW Jakie has been a professor of acting at Texas Wesleyan, University of North Texas, Tarrant County College, and KD Studios.  Jakie served as the Director of Drama at Tarrant County College-Northeast where his production of Neville’s Island was a regional finalist at KCACTF in 2005.  For the last year Jakie has worked as an actor in The Illusion, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Christmas Carol at the Dallas Theater Center; The Pillowman, and Stones in His Pockets (Top Ten Choice of the year by Dallas Morning News and FW Star- Telegram) at Stage West; Prison Break for Fox TV, and directed the world premiere of the musical Treasure Island at Casa Manana.