←Recommendations of To Saints and Stars

A beautiful, smart, and moving piece that highlights the adventure in both exploring the solar system and building a family. Though the play contains profound insights into friendship, faith, science, and climate crisis, it moves seamlessly from scene to scene and makes for a compelling read. If you don't read this play, you're missing out on a fantastic experience!

A powerful look into friendship and faith as two women follow their mission in the exploration of life. Well done.

I was lucky enough to catch a reading of this beautiful and poetic play at San Diego Rep, and I was awestruck at its examination of faith and science as it pertains to our relationships. Can't wait to see this sci-fi marvel brought to life on stage! I highly recommend.

An inspiring play that attempts to untangle the knot of friendship, family, and core beliefs. The characters of Zoe and Sofia are both forces to be reckoned with as the play reveals not only their goals for careers, religion, and science but their vulnerabilities and secrets that made their friendship more like family.

This beautiful play deals with faith, science and friendship amongst the family you choose. It deftly maneuvers between these themes and manages to be gut wrenching yet also instill hope and faith til the very end. Bravo

Science and faith, old world values and the potential to imagine new ones, so much at stake - the future of the human race - written with great skill and grace. Beautiful work!

Though at its purest a play about faith vs. science, this play is also about what it takes to and how we advance humanity which, in some ways, are thornier questions. Jordan presents it all beautifully through a female lens that aces the Bechdel test while simultaneously showing us how far women have come and how far we still have to go. Stellar (NPI!) work!!

This is a gorgeous, theatrical, and insightful piece of sci-fi led by compelling characters and excellent world building. In a masterful example of showing vs. telling, Jordan Ramirez Puckett fleshes out a hypothetical future that is clearly rendered through the words and actions of just four eclectic people. Sofia and Zoe are powerful foci, and we see well-paced revelations as we wind back and forth in time and place. Ramirez Puckett explores gender in two totally different fields, faith, and human use and abuse of the planet with subtlety and complexity. The ending moments are astonishing!

The fraught relationship between science and religion is certainly nothing new to the theatre but this is such a fresh take on that theme. Huge questions are being asked in this play is at its heart a character study of two women that had a strong bond as children but went in different directions as adults. This play shows that people of science and faith are complimentary of each other and have so many similarities. The way this play is structured between locations and time is absolutely brilliant. PRODUCE THIS PLAY!!!

I had the incredible pleasure of seeing a staged reading of To Saints and Stars recently. I do not cry easily, especially in public. The relationship between two best friends, separated by unbearable distance, is brought to life with such great honesty and heart, by the end of the play I had tears streaming down my face. This play centers two women in professions we don't often have the fortune to see onstage, and is a beautiful, poetic, raw, and vastly smart exploration of science and faith.