One Woman Standing:

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Jake's recently workshopped an original solo show, Aiding and Abetting, about a young woman helping her mother's lover escape from some damning accusations. Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, with two black eyes, the piece was a departure from type for Jake.
Reviews
  • “The play truly needs all four of its characters to keep its engine running, but the lynchpin of the show’s plot is Catherine. Lipman does a beautiful job of tapping into the anger, fear, and budding romantic feelings that Catherine confronts in the intense roller coaster of the one week following her father’s death. She also does a stellar job of keeping her sister (and the audience) on edge as she displays glimpses of a scary instability not unlike her father’s.” -- NYTheatre.com review of Proof by David Auburn
  • “Jake Lipman finds both bitterness and compassion within Catherine, the daugher who gave up her own academic aspirations to nurse her ailing father, Robert, as he slowly slides into madness.” -- TheatreOnline.com review of Proof by David Auburn
  • “The show centers on one "Mistress" Sunny (Jake Lipman) who is both a committed clinical psychology student attending a prestigious university in New York City, and a very professional dominatrix. Though bondage may be too clingy for the typical psych student, it fits just fine on Sunny, who manages to emit a Mother Theresa-like aura even with a couple of sadomasochists suspended by their ankles in her dungeon. Lipman does a superb job of straddling the ever-thinning line between darling and self-destruction.” -- NYTheatre.com review of Psych by Evan Smith
  • “[In Psych], Sunny (Jake Lipman) is a twenty-something New Yorker who works as a dominatrix and wants to go to grad school for psychology. Sunny seems doomed from the minute she starts applying to grad school: it seems everyone is out to get her despite her sweet demeanor and ambitious personality. As the story unfolds and her relationships become more tumultuous, the audience is left to wonder who is a victim and who is really, well, psychotic. Lipman is the people-pleasing girl next door; she finds the balance between kind and creepy and lets her character waver uncomfortably between the two.” -- TheatreIsEasy.com
Noted
  • Up a River/Down the Aisle was an official selection of the Short Subjects division of the 2009 Midtown International Theatre Festival, (see press coverage on BroadwayWorld.com)