Jacques Levy (29 July 1935 – 30 September 2004) was a Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist. Levy was born in New York City in 1935, later attending its City College. He continued on to earn a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University. Levy was also a trained psychoanalyst, certified by the Menninger Institute for Psychoanalysis in Topeka, Kansa. Levy later returned to New York and became a clinical psychologist. From 1993 until his death from cancer in 2004, he was an English professor and director of theater at New York's Colgate University.