With a spirit of becoming!

A Two Act Play by J. Lynn Jackson, 2017

A Catholic priest in need of love wrestles with belief and doubt. His journey – both guided and misguided by family, work, church, and self - ultimately inspires a leap of faith beyond the bounds of conventional religion and in to the passionate embrace of a bigger God.

The Red Sweater is a full-length play based on Maurice L. Monette’s memoir, Confessions of a Gay Married Priest. Dramatic readings were with the Playwrights Center, the Berkeley Play Cafe and Whimsy Farm.

A Two Act Play by J. Lynn Jackson, 2019

Hernán Espinoza from Mexico walks Japan’s Shikoku pilgrimage path to open his heart. A Buddhist nun and others test his intentions. When lured to a shortcut, dark demons from Hernán's past leave him lost. Is he alive or dead, a man or a woman, a saint or a sinner, in Japan or not? In search of light, Hernán continues to the end of the circular Shikoku path, which is also the beginning.

Lucía Fuentes came to life in 2019 as a full-length play triggered and inspired by the truth-tellers of the global #MeToo reckoning and the families of 43 students disappeared in Mexico. Lucía Fuentes is one of two plays selected by Town Hall Theatre (Lafayette, CA) for production in their 2023-2024 New Voices Festival. In 2022, San Francisco PlayGround selected Lucía Fuentes as one of three plays for their inaugural Free-Plays Festival at Potrero Stage, directed by Katja Rivera and produced by Miyoko Sakatani's Playland Productions. Previous dramatic readings were with the Playwrights Center, the Berkeley Play Cafe and Whimsy Farm. Lucía Fuentes is a semi-finalist for the 2021 Woodward International Playwriting Prize and for the 2024 Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

A Two Act Play by J. Lynn Jackson, 2021

It's 2001 in southern Chile.  On the verge of receiving an unwanted lifetime achievement award from a ship full of wealthy US philanthropists, a clandestine backer of revolutions appears shipwrecked on a shrinking patch of thin ice along with a ghost, a gun, a knife and a secret admirer. Clues for survival come as the castaway relives past affairs with Pablo Neruda, Frida Kahlo, Fidel Castro, and others.

The play celebrates the potential for revolutionary change in everyone, and shows how survival skills developed in childhood can backfire later in life if unexplored or overused.

Charles Darwin, Her True Story was one of four plays selected via a national search by North Star for their 2020 New Plays Workshop Intensive, the Playwrights Center for their first Open Play Showcase actors’ reading, and by the Dramatists Guild for their Footlights actors’ reading series. 

Latinx Mafia produced Charles Darwin, Her True Story, directed by Terezina Vital, as one of nine plays selected for PlayGround's 2022 Innovators Showcase Festival.

It's 2019 in Santiago, Chile. When the abandoned and hungry storm the gate at Christ's Home Hospital, the soon-to-retire gate guard, José, is left with a broken hand, no job, no healthcare, and no pension. He's also left with  much more time than he wanted to heal his hand, his stressed marriage and his long festering wounds left by the Pinochet dictatorship. As months pass, José loses all hope for positive change. Then, a student uprising ignites all of Chile and sparks a flame José thought had been doused forever inside himself, his relationships and his country.

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Mikey's estranged father and uncles break him free from the remote Arkansas compound where his mother raised him on bibles, guns and bubble gum. After barely uttering a word in 10 years, Mikey is now in the big city and is desperate to get a job and become a man, but his over-texting mother plots to get her little boy back.

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In southern Mexico, the Shaman of Chamula is mysteriously "disappeared" the same day Diva, a washed-up drag queen, turns (head over heels) to him for "spiritual direction". Determined to find the Shaman, Diva seeks support from friends in the local gay, indigenous, and women's rights movements. Diva learns the Shaman is caught up in a skirmish between Zapatista rebels, the corrupt federal government, drug lords and the ruthless developers of the proposed Palenque Pyramids theme-park. To draw attention to the Shaman's cause, Diva does what she does best - she unites her fragmented community in the creation of a musical extravaganza, calling on old friend Ricky Martin to recruit talent from across the Americas. For Diva, bringing attention to Mexicos's disappeared and regaining the Shaman's spiritual direction is well worth the personal sacrifices of keeping her hair in place and her nails from breaking.

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