Jude Cramer

Jude Cramer (he/him) is a NYC-based playwright whose work focuses on (un)sexiness, drag, and the dramatics of queer men. Jude’s plays have been produced by The Tank ('Regicide'), The Chain Theatre ('The Fool on a Journey Through Arcana, Wisconsin'), All Out Arts ('When a Faggot Finds a Flower'), RE/VENUE NYC ('Quantum Gravity'), and Frigid New York ('grease my chin').

When he’s not writing plays, Jude is a NLGJA Award-winning and GLAAD Media Award-nominated journalist working as a staff writer for INTO Magazine, where he tells stories about entertainment and queer culture.

By night, he’s also Miriam Webster, Brooklyn’s most grammatically correct drag queen.

Jude Cramer (he/him) is a NYC-based playwright whose work focuses on (un)sexiness, drag, and the dramatics of queer men. Jude’s plays have been produced by The Tank ('Regicide'), The Chain Theatre ('The Fool on a Journey Through Arcana, Wisconsin'), All Out Arts ('When a Faggot Finds a Flower'), RE/VENUE NYC ('Quantum Gravity'), and Frigid New York ('grease my chin').

When he’s not writing plays, Jude is a NLGJA Award-winning and GLAAD Media Award-nominated journalist working as a staff writer for INTO Magazine, where he tells stories about entertainment and queer culture.

By night, he’s also Miriam Webster, Brooklyn’s most grammatically correct drag queen.

Scripts

grease my chin

by Jude Cramer

Synopsis

Tensions are running high on an annual family camping trip — and the onset of the zombie apocalypse sure doesn’t help. Disputes over parenting, pronouns, and privacy give way to a fight for survival as a family wrestles with its own monstrosity. In hereditary horror "grease my chin," family secrets and passed-down prejudices come to light around the campfire in a blood-splattered battle between three generations...

Tensions are running high on an annual family camping trip — and the onset of the zombie apocalypse sure doesn’t help. Disputes over parenting, pronouns, and privacy give way to a fight for survival as a family wrestles with its own monstrosity. In hereditary horror "grease my chin," family secrets and passed-down prejudices come to light around the campfire in a blood-splattered battle between three generations.

The Fool on a Journey Through Arcana, Wisconsin

by Jude Cramer

Synopsis

Mystical. All-knowing. Divine. Such is the nature of the tarot — except for one card, who has no clue what the hell he’s doing. The Fool is your everyday midwestern teenager trapped in suburbia’s stranglehold, but today, he gets his long-awaited chance to learn the truth about his future, his family, and the magically mundane world they all inhabit. "The Fool on a Journey Through Arcana, Wisconsin" is a coming...

Mystical. All-knowing. Divine. Such is the nature of the tarot — except for one card, who has no clue what the hell he’s doing. The Fool is your everyday midwestern teenager trapped in suburbia’s stranglehold, but today, he gets his long-awaited chance to learn the truth about his future, his family, and the magically mundane world they all inhabit. "The Fool on a Journey Through Arcana, Wisconsin" is a coming-of-age adventure about magic run amok and a deck of cards dealing its own destiny.

When a Faggot Finds a Flower

by Jude Cramer

Synopsis

Charlie doesn’t wish he were straight. He just wishes he could pretend to be. He wishes he could convince someone he was, or that he could attract one of the boys who can pull it off. But when presented with the chance to make his dream a reality, Charlie discovers the curious nature of fairies — in every sense of the word. "When a Faggot Finds a Flower" is a 10-minute fable about a boy who’s sick of his bent...

Charlie doesn’t wish he were straight. He just wishes he could pretend to be. He wishes he could convince someone he was, or that he could attract one of the boys who can pull it off. But when presented with the chance to make his dream a reality, Charlie discovers the curious nature of fairies — in every sense of the word. "When a Faggot Finds a Flower" is a 10-minute fable about a boy who’s sick of his bent wrist, and what he stands to lose by straightening it out.

Regicide

by Jude Cramer

Synopsis

When a veteran drag queen takes "death drop" too literally, a hosting gig is up for grabs at one of Milwaukee’s last gay bars. A seasoned queen bee and a talented newcomer are both poised to take her crown and secure their spot at the top of the food chain — but only one can reign supreme. Let the queer catfight commence! "Regicide" is a drag dramedy dripping with shade, show stopping lip syncs, and existential...

When a veteran drag queen takes "death drop" too literally, a hosting gig is up for grabs at one of Milwaukee’s last gay bars. A seasoned queen bee and a talented newcomer are both poised to take her crown and secure their spot at the top of the food chain — but only one can reign supreme. Let the queer catfight commence! "Regicide" is a drag dramedy dripping with shade, show stopping lip syncs, and existential dread, probing why anyone, queer or otherwise, wants to be special in the first place, and what it means if you’re simply not.

Quantum Gravity

by Jude Cramer

Synopsis

Arthur has a miraculous ability to travel through time. Unfortunately for him, so does Reid, a stranger from the present desperate to keep the timeline intact. As they race through iconic eras in queer history, the two find connection where they least expect it, and wonder if it's worth losing your future for a chance to change your past. In sci-fi melodrama "Quantum Gravity," the legacy of gay men’s sexuality...

Arthur has a miraculous ability to travel through time. Unfortunately for him, so does Reid, a stranger from the present desperate to keep the timeline intact. As they race through iconic eras in queer history, the two find connection where they least expect it, and wonder if it's worth losing your future for a chance to change your past. In sci-fi melodrama "Quantum Gravity," the legacy of gay men’s sexuality comes face to face with its ugly present in an epic, expansive and romantic adventure across time.