Jack Wolfram

This historically-sound work of critical fabulation emphasizes the distinction between namelessness and powerlessness through the mostly-true story of how the teenage girl responsible for one of the most widely-read stories in literature itself -- "Frankenstein" -- found both inspiration and solidarity in the uncredited work of a “canonical” English author’s youngest daughter, unbeknownst to them both.

After learning that their favorite co-worker needs a fortune to continue cancer treatment, a disabled nonbinary teacher, their girlfriend, and their aging coworker plot some legally-frowned-upon mutual aid to carry our during the next middle school field trip. Their target? Two centuries-old salmon on tour at the local Washington State salmon ladder.

A mourning mother and her son uncover a crumbling collection of letters furtively stashed beneath the floorboards of her late Irish father-in-law's home. In the epistolary play that follows, two Irishmen from opposite ends of the Emerald Isle grow close after a chance meeting on the dock to see their firstborn sons off to the United States. It soon becomes apparent, though, that their lives and those of their families will shape one another in unimaginable, unbearable ways.

Two siblings isolating in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic receive an unexpected visitor. This “bake-off” play was co-written over the course of one weekend upon receiving the following ingredients inspired by the poem “Suggested Donation” by Heather Christle.

• Six nail clippers.
• The line, “The deer are awake”.
• The line, “Surrender to me your beautiful shirt”.
• 3 characters.
• A character sings badly.
• 10 seconds of silence.
• Siblings.
• A diary entry or an archive, literal or conceptual.