Jacob Sidney has provided voice talent for audio plays, video games, and live announcing. With great facility for character voices and dialects, he now builds on three decades of live stage acting and classical singing to expand into audiobooks.
Jacob has played Sherlock Holmes, George in Of Mice and Men (“nimble, physically and verbally, even waxing poetic at times” - The Times of San Diego), and Julian in Uncanny Valley (“a tour de force” - LA Times); as well as Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Jekyll & Hyde, and many other great roles from classic to contemporary.
A classically trained baritone, Jacob sang the role of white-supremacist Patrick in The Beastly Bombing, a contemporary Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style operetta about incompetent terrorists; as well as appearing as a guest soloist with legendary art-rockers Sparks in their one-night performance of the rock opera The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. After a long choral career, he stays connected to music by singing jazz, rockabilly, pop, and more whenever he can.
GENERAL
Jacob spent many years as the well-known Lead Bartender at LA’s only “theatre bar,” the Broadwater Plunge. Trained in classic cocktails, and with a taste for contemporary flavor profiles and techniques, he designed menus and trained new staff before retiring from the industry in 2025. He is an avid home cook, specializing in grilling seafood and sourdough baking, including a weekly scratch pizza for his wife and teenage daughter. He spent many years in the Boy Scouts, gaining experience in wilderness survival in the Grand Canyon and Olympic Peninsula; and now backpacks, kayaks, fishes, and camps with his family as often as possible. Part of his childhood spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico gave him facility with Chicano Spanish and a deep love of roasted green chiles and sopaipillas.
Jacob’s a lifelong fan of the music and sports scenes of his hometown of Seattle, having seen the band Mudhoney at least 20 times. He collects vinyl and memorabilia, including a signed Edgar Martinez rookie card, signed Ichiro baseball, and several original items from the Seattle World's Fair of 1962. His Great-Great-Grandfather signed the Constitution of the State of Washington, and Jacob has a long fascination with the history of the area. This amateur-historian’s passion culminated in the solo show No Better Man, telling the life story of Doc Maynard, who founded the city of Seattle with great help and cooperation from his friend, Chief Seattle.
Jacob is five years into a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with his high-school and college friends, where he plays the female Halfling Ranger Khovan, traipsing the multiverse with her drake Lucy at her side.
