Jacob Merchant

Hi everyone, I'm Jacob! Some people call me Jac. Other people call me Jac.

I'm a second year Arts and Sciences (BASc) student, and have been the Drama Committee's interim secretary since the start of this year. In my role I have done my meeting-note-taking and newsletter-sending duties with enthusiasm, as well as being very active during the Freshers' Week events to both advertise the society and help the Year Ones feel welcome. It has been a great pleasure to have provisionally been on this wonderful committee and to be a friendly face to people new to UCL and Drama Society alike. I would very much like to keep on serving as your secretary!

Drama Society has been my home at UCL literally since I joined, as I was thrown into the fray as the character Spencer in the 2022 Term 1 Blooms Show 'King Charles III'. Since then I have also appeared in the New Writing Festival as Loki in 'The Binding of Loki', and I will soon be performing Godunov in 'As Terrible As God'.

As secretary, it is important to be able to write well. Allow me to demonstrate. I can spell 'onomatopoeia' without a spell-checker, and I know what an Oxford comma is. 'Trough' rhymes with 'cough' but not with 'through', 'though', 'bough', or 'lough'. Need any more be said about my lexical prowess?

If you vote for me you can expect:

• Good vibes
• Memes

If you don't vote for me you can expect:

• Regret

Thank you everyone who read this far. You're a champ.