Who is this guy?

Hi there! My name is Jake Raiter and I was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Bend, Oregon. I fell in love with acting and live performance in high school and decided to do whatever I could to spend the rest of my life making art. I attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Summer Seminar for High School Juniors in 2013, and was introduced to an astounding amount of amazing artists and theatre creators. In fact I loved it so much I ended up enrolling at the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University, right down the street from OSF. I had the chance to work with fantastic professionals such as Octavio Solis, Jim  Edmondson, U. Jonathon Toppo, James Donlon, Jackie Apodaca, and many others. I graduated in 2019 and travelled as well as worked with different theatre companies such as Struts and Frets Theatre Company in Salem, OR and Puppeteers for Fears! Now, as of Fall 2023 I have relocated to Staunton, VA where I have entered into Shakespeare and Performance Graduate Program at Mary Baldwin University in association with the American Shakespeare Center.