Directing
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CSU Studio Theatre (Fort Collins, CO)
Everybody is a modern retelling of the 15th-century morality tale The Summoning of Everyman. Join Friendship, Kinship, Stuff, Mind, Five Senses, and Understanding as they guide Everybody on their journey through life and destiny and towards Love. Jacobs-Jenkins plays with fate through a casting lottery system and muses on the immorality of racism of our times.
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Bas Bleu (Staged Reading)
Inspired by The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, Carlota: Jewelry Box of Secrets is set in the house that the protagonist, Carlota, inherited from her father. It is a house where time has stopped for her and her three daughters. One summer, Carlota, Soledad, her lifelong companion, and Carlota’s daughters attend the funeral of Heladio del Monte. Attending the wake unleashes a series of events that trigger the revelation of a secret that will change everyone’s lives.
Carlota was written in Spanish in 2016. This staged reading of Carlota was the first public reading of the script.
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Magic Rat (Staged Reading)
Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn’t want to move back to his childhood home in eastern Oregon when his father falls ill. But at night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big changes in his family, he discovers the power of names and the histories they make and mask.
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CSU On The Brink (Staged Reading)
The Crump family is adrift and in trouble. Recently widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his teenage daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in the illusions of Hollywood to escape racial prejudice. But things change quickly when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows up…
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Jackie Liebergott Black Box (Boston, MA)
In a series of disjointed vignettes of marriage and work-worn love, The Late Wedding travels through space and time (quite literally) to depict the core of what makes a successful partnership and what subtly chips away at its foundation.
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El Teatro Campesino (San Juan Bautista, CA)
Curated & Directed by Javier Luis Hurtado, SABOR A MI is a showcase of queer Latinx writers and performers from across the country. Performances were recorded live in front of a small invited audience. The showcase was then made available digitally to a global audience.