Jacques Levy

Jacques Levy ( born July 29, 1935 in New York; † September 30, 2004 ) was an American songwriter, theater director and psychologist.

Jacques Levy was born in 1935 in the city of New York, where he later attended college. Subsequently, he obtained his doctorate at Michigan State University. After his return to New York he worked as a psychologist in a local clinic. Levy wrote, among other pieces for Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Joe Cocker and various Broadway musicals. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a theater director on Broadway and Off- Broadway and led, among other things Oh! Calcutta (1969-1972 and 1976-1989), Almost an Eagle (1982) and the comic Doonesbury implementation ( 1983-1984), for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. From 1993 until his death he taught as an English professor at Colgate University.