Jaime Alejandro Cruz

Walt is thrilled about his new business venture, now all he has to do is convince his wife there's money to be made in Prairie Dogs.

In the future, Aiden is a synthetic in-home healthcare assistant who longs for better clientele. A sci-fi audio play with horror elements. Produced as part of The Ugly Radio Podcast Series 2024.

This audio play features horror violence and is not suitable for young audiences.

The groom has gone missing. Meanwhile, groomsman Clint and bridesmaid Mara, two apathetic millennials and surplus to requirements, watch from the sidelines as they reluctantly get to know each other.

Local television anchor Lance enters a zoom call anticipating a promotion, while Priscilla, his ruthless superior, has other plans in store for this once promising newscaster. A short piece of commentary on the relentless news cycle and social media's complete disruption of journalistic integrity.

*Note: This play was intended for zoom productions but adjustments can be made for stage productions.

Mai, a young Mexican girl and Antonia, her ailing mother, are locked in a room like animals. They have to get out. Guided by her mother and Santo Toribio Romo, the Patron Saint of immigrants, Mai will uncover the truth behind their entrapment, along with her own troubled past.

A Descent into Metatheatre.

Sean and Neil work at a liquor store. Neil is smitten by a sophisticated woman named Kate Ellington. Sean pines for Kelly, their elusive coworker. They drink on the job. They shamelessly babble about one-night stands, alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases. They are the lowest of the low: unfit, amoral, and profane blank slates living a mundane existence as the fabric of their story gradually unravels at the seams of metatheatre. A real protagonist is needed and someone must sober up to the challenge. There's severe drinking, electrocutions, and offstage acts of violence. Sean and Neil must find purpose, along with possibilities they never knew they had.

CONTENT WARNING: Profanity. Conversations about suicide and sex. Alcohol use throughout.

A story about guilt, family and PB&J sandwiches.
Dan hasn't slept in weeks. He's about to become a father and his wife April doesn't know what to do with him. Upon his brother Mike's soaking wet arrival, disturbing news about someone's death come to light, hurling Dan head on against the haunting dilemmas of insomnia, broken promises, and family commitment.

National Finalist, KCACTF John Cauble One Act Award, 2009

KCACTF Region VII One Act Winner, 2009

Set in December of 1999, hours before the new millennium enters, an undocumented hotel maid named Lupe is on the verge of getting her son back. To do so, she must save her failing relationship with Jared, a construction worker with a short fuse who lusts after Kaycee, the disturbed college dropout who survives her suicide and finds spirituality in Tim, a man-child pizza delivery boy who is terrified of women. Amid the Y2K madness, pizza deliveries and the pornography, they just may find their place in the world, before time runs out.

It’s a story about people looking for salvation in the wrong places, the lengths people go to justify the irrational, and a mother’s love for her child.

Winner, Northwest Drama Conference Playwriting Competition 2010

*CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, abuse, sexual content.

Jerry the Salamander brings a slew of insects and other local crawlers together for a town hall, to discuss the most important issues at the creek. A short audio play about fallible leaders, our children, and a planet at the mercy of industry. 15 mins.

A short cliffhanger audio play for the whole family! The first of three parts. 'BAPORÚ 2049 PART I' is set up to become a Robin Hood-like sci-fi that explores our Latinx/e community's affection for VapoRub, issues of wealth inequality, and the importance of learning from our elders. It's pretty absurd too.

Ruthie and Landon. Two siblings in their 30s in an empty house overlooking the Wyoming prairie. A brief meditation on family, extinction, and environmental tragedy. 10 mins.

A young homeless woman appears with a beat-up radio. The sounds she hears reveal there is more to her than meets the eye.

This experimental movement piece was created for Rain City Projects' Speed Dating Project, Seattle, WA.
Directed by L. Nicol Cabe.

Inspired by the Greek tragedy Heracles by Euripides, the dramedy is set in a working class restaurant kitchen in remote, small-town Wyoming. Nate, an unassuming Mexican- American dishwasher discovers a life-altering truth about his father on the busiest night of the week. Over the span of one Thirsty Thursday evening, badgered by foul-mouthed servers and dough-slingers, Nate will give it his all to retain his heart, morals, and sanity by the end of the shift. The tragedy, transposed to this pedestrian setting to illustrate through pity and fear the perennial desire for human beings to abuse one another, our ongoing quest for a better place in the social hierarchy, as well as the intoxicating greed that preys on the desperate. And there will be pizza.

Quebradita is the story of a Mexican family in small town Wyoming clutching desperately to its values and failed dreams. Consuelo, a mother grieving over the loss of her father, has been tougher than usual on her family. Consuelo’s teenage daughter Valeria, however, is far more interested getting permission to go to the Back to School dance; while Alberto, her father, drinks in secrecy and throws money away on a long-shot horse at the local racetrack. A fake ID, a leap out a second story window and an unemployed womanizer named Ramiro lead this family to an evening of secrets revealed, and a devastating realization that perhaps they are better strangers than kin.

The play follows Juan Limón, an inventive ten year old boy who sets out on an
epic quest from Mexico to America and beyond in search of his estranged father,
and to prove to his mother he’s not a ‘fraidy cat. Accompanied by Gabriel, his
Mexican Wrestler Doll/confidant, Juan ventures on his odyssey with only one
clue: a mysterious flower pendant his father left behind. Along the way, his
imagination provides fantastical foes, talking animals in the desert and even
intergalactic revelations. But nothing will prepare him for the battle between the
imagined and the reality up ahead, as well as the sacrifices a brave young boy
must endure in the name of adventure and the fight against fear.

One man’s lust for happiness instigates his own downward spiral of twisted memories, sex, and poor customer service. A one act-nightmare.

Film adaptation by Daniel Rojas, 2010

Nick and Jefferson's mother just died. Nick's more concerned about his Protestant girlfriend, Jefferson can't poop, and their mother was kind of a jerk. As they discover their mother's final wishes in the form of a bottle of Aquafina, these two are forced to tolerate each other and together confront irritable bowel syndrome, Catholic guilt and the very woman they called mother.

An absurdist theatre piece about two humanoids at the beginning and the end, quarreling about a can of corn. Trapped in a wasteland, the two must learn to deal with one another and ultimately grapple with the fading traces of their humanity.