Jared Sprowls

Mourner sits shiva for his late sister...twenty years too late. Through dramatized Jewish ritual, he wonders how we best hold onto memories as they only get farther away. Audiences are invited to slow down in this intimate solo show where we take time to remember when it often feels easier to forget.

A Jewish American Pageant for Jewish American...Queens. Beauty queens that is. This musical centers on seven of the fifty one (don't forget Miss Jewish DC!) competitors as they navigate their Jewish identity and evolving girlhood into womanhood. Can a Jewish girl from South Dakota represent the country? Will Miss Jewish Minnesota's brother be allowed to take her place? Will Miss Jewish Oregon ever think that Judaism is sexy!?! All of these questions and more in a "Miss Congeniality meets Putnam County Spelling Bee" extravaganza that embraces the complicated beauty of the Jewish diaspora.

Moshe feels bound by his new religious duties as rabbi. His wife, Malka, is better at being in charge, but she never asked for this kind of responsibility. When cultural expectations of orthodoxy get in the way of them communicating their true needs, Moshe escapes to a Jewish dominatrix for a different kind of bondage. As BDSM becomes religion and Mistress becomes rabbi, Malka must become dominatrix and put her husband back in his place. Who says we can't have happy endings?

Unstable Connections is a series of vignettes set in America during the onset of the COVID pandemic. Although COVID is never mentioned, the isolation, frustration, and general malaise of 2020 is clear. Inspired by the style of "Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat" by Mark Ravenhill, these vignettes can be performed individually or as a whole in any order that one may wish; each scene has its own characters and plot with open options for double casting. This radio play turned stage play reevaluates relationships interrupted by isolation. What do we crave from others and how healthy are such cravings?

Some would say that Cowboy isn't your typical cowboy. He's gay. He loves men...although he's only truly loved a few. One night, he meets a man. They rodeo: roping, racing and riding. Cowboy is weary that this man is more of the same. But how much has Cowboy changed since the last man? Or the man before that? Reverse Cowboy is a two-hander where fears of queer intimacy and isolation meet.

Bridget Bishop, the drag queen, decides to put on a play about Bridget Bishop, the first witch executed during the Salem Witch Trials. With the help of her drag family and Donna Summer's greatest hits, Bridget Bishop puts on a show about her namesake who lost everything except her notoriety. As she struggles to balance fame and family, she realizes that both Bishops have more in common than a name.

Did you finish your vegetables? Not too much! Who's ready for cake? Dinner conversation turns acidic in this fast paced, ten minute play.