Jeff Takacs is an independent writer whose works include many theatrical texts, including Le Cirque Feerique, The Judgment of Paris, and the long-running Nutcracker Rouge for the New York performance troupe Company XIV. Writings include The Switching Yard, a novel; Kaintuck, a play; and more plays, stories, essays, and songs. As a performer, he can be seen right before the Bob Dylan scene in the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis.