Jordan Ramirez Puckett

Two Mexican-American men aspire to become professional baseball players while they live and work on a lemon-picking labor camp in Southern California during the 1920s and 30s. Or simply put, this is a queer love story about two friends who dream of becoming something more.

Zoe and Sofía see one another for the last time before their lives take drastically different paths

This is the ten-minute version of my full-length play TO SAINTS AND STARS

Listen closely because I am going to tell you an ancient tale. At a time when people were nothing more than pawns for gods and shadows, the Sun God disappeared leaving the world in darkness and in danger. When their own mother’s life is threatened, young Xenia and Luz must take the trial of the gods, risking their lives for the chance to become deities themselves. And why do you need to hear this story? Because time is a cyclical, and what happened in the past did happen again and is happening now.

To Saints and Stars is a full-length play about the intersection between science and faith. It follows the lifelong friendship of Sofía, a NASA astronaut, and Zoe, the wife of a Greek Orthodox priest. Sofia and Zoe have been friends since they were children and not a day has passed where they haven't seen or spoken to each other. Their lives and friendship are changed forever when Zoe becomes pregnant with her first child and Sofía is chosen for the first manned Mission to Mars. As the day of Sofia’s departure to Mars and Zoe’s due date approaches, their relationship becomes more strained as each woman is forced to re-evaluate what they each have prioritized in their own life and the indelible impact that they have made on each other.

2,000 miles, a cross-country car ride
adopted son and mother travel side by side
white woman, brown son in the same space
9 states to the hospital, the teen’s birthplace
4 days, if all goes according to plan
5 nights, of doing all that they can
to find his birth mom, identity, or home
but by the end of their journey
will any answers be known?

Lita, Anita, and Taylor are three generations of Chicana women who live in the same apartment together. And as much as they can fight about everything from religion to dating, there isn’t anything that one wouldn’t do for another. But there will always be a division in their relationship because Lita’s and Anita’s brown skin and Taylor’s white skin have affected how they are each able to move throughout the world. And when Taylor returns from her first year at college, she finds that something has shifted in her childhood home. Lita goes missing for days on end with flimsy excuses for her absence. Anita and Lita whisper in the middle of the night about a secret that must be kept from Taylor at all costs. And the truth is a far too common example how America’s poorest populations are being exploited around the country.

What happens when young raw passion goes terribly wrong? Five characters grapple with how to find justice in the aftermath of an unthinkable event.

What would you do if you could stop time? In Evelyn’s desperate attempt to make sense of her life she grasps at the impossible: halting the inevitable ticking clock. But the cost of this seeming impossibility may be destroying the family she has worked a lifetime to create. Fantasy and memory collide in this family drama that examines questions central to the human experience. What does it mean to die? And when you do, what is the legacy that you want to leave behind?