Was nominated for Broadway's 1972 Tony Award as Best Book (Musical)
with collaborator Jim Jacobs for "Grease."
Jim Jacobs and his musical, "The Original Grease," at the American Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2011 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Production of a Musical (Midsize).
He created the role of Bernie Litko in Organic Theater's 1974 world premiere of David Mamet's play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago."