Jake Cline is a Miami-based playwright, short-story writer and journalist. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Sierra magazine, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and elsewhere. As a member of the editorial team that covered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Cline is a winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Jenna & the Whale, a dramatic play Cline wrote with Vanessa Garcia (The Amparo Experience, #Graced, Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas), received its world premiere August 10-26, 2023 at Ground Floor Theatre in Austin, Texas. The play was produced by Ground Floor Theatre in collaboration with Broadway United (The Inheritance, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Mrs. Doubtfire, American Son). A staged reading of Jenna & the Whale was held Nov. 17, 2019, as part of Miami New Drama's New Play Lab, and a virtual reading of the play was broadcast June 30-July 5, 2020 via Broadway on Demand. Cline's play Purple Hearts was given a staged reading on Oct. 22, 2018 by Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and in June 2020 was workshopped by The Greenhouse at Florida International University in Miami. Cline was one of four playwrights in the 2019-2021 class of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs’ Playwright Development Program. The Mountains, a play he wrote while in the program, received a stage reading March 11, 2022 at the Sandrell Rivers Theater in Miami. Cline lives blocks from Miami's Little Havana neighborhood with his wife, Yvette, and rescue beagle, Doug. For more, go to jakecline.net.