Jake Brasch

Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer, sober clown and playwright from Colorado and a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. His play The Reservoir premiered in 2025 in a co-production between the Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse, followed by a second production at Berkeley Rep. The Off-Broadway Premiere will be presented by Atlantic Theater Company in association with the EST/Sloan Project in 2026. With Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Jake is half of American Sing-Song (A.S.S.), the filthy musical duo behind HOLE!, which opened to rave reviews at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. Their work has been developed or commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, The Acting Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Farm Theater, New York...

Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer, sober clown and playwright from Colorado and a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. His play The Reservoir premiered in 2025 in a co-production between the Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse, followed by a second production at Berkeley Rep. The Off-Broadway Premiere will be presented by Atlantic Theater Company in association with the EST/Sloan Project in 2026. With Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Jake is half of American Sing-Song (A.S.S.), the filthy musical duo behind HOLE!, which opened to rave reviews at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. Their work has been developed or commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, The Acting Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Farm Theater, New York Stage and Film, ArtHouse Inkubator, Letter of Marque, Eden Theater Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Jake also writes music and lyrics for plays, films, and podcasts, works as a birthday party clown in the tri-state area, and is developing a Grotowski-based physical dramaturgy for playwrights. BFA from NYU Tisch (Experimental Theatre Wing/New Studio on Broadway).

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Scripts

Family Weekend

by Jake Brasch

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

It’s Family Weekend at Rocky Mountain Joy: a men’s substance abuse rehab in Colorado. Family members of addicts have gathered for communal living and group therapy. With the help of an eccentric Al-Anon old-timer, an under-qualified counselor, and a pesky wild elk, they consider what, if anything, they can do to help their family members get sober. Family Weekend is a dark comedy about codependency and the...

It’s Family Weekend at Rocky Mountain Joy: a men’s substance abuse rehab in Colorado. Family members of addicts have gathered for communal living and group therapy. With the help of an eccentric Al-Anon old-timer, an under-qualified counselor, and a pesky wild elk, they consider what, if anything, they can do to help their family members get sober. Family Weekend is a dark comedy about codependency and the complexities of loving an addict.

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How to Draw a Triangle

by Jake Brasch

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Aaron is a musical theatre-obsessed fifth grader who pogo sticks to school and wears a fanny pack at all times. Unable to write legibly or catch a ball, he is sent to work with Ms. Jimenez, a depressed Occupational Therapist. After their initial clash, the two form an unlikely bond. ‘How to Draw a Triangle’ is a comedy about emerging queerness, the wreckage of our past, and the heroes who go out on a limb to...

Aaron is a musical theatre-obsessed fifth grader who pogo sticks to school and wears a fanny pack at all times. Unable to write legibly or catch a ball, he is sent to work with Ms. Jimenez, a depressed Occupational Therapist. After their initial clash, the two form an unlikely bond. ‘How to Draw a Triangle’ is a comedy about emerging queerness, the wreckage of our past, and the heroes who go out on a limb to help us become ourselves.

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Spin

by Jake Brasch

5
Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

What do a birthday party clown, an ornithologist, a rabbi, a park ranger, a grief counselor, a goat cheese enthusiast, and a flock of critically endangered Barn Owls have in common? Turns out a hell of a lot! Jumping wildly through time, ‘Spin' kaleidoscopically charts the interconnected lives of a group of lost souls, revealing threads that tie us all together.

What do a birthday party clown, an ornithologist, a rabbi, a park ranger, a grief counselor, a goat cheese enthusiast, and a flock of critically endangered Barn Owls have in common? Turns out a hell of a lot! Jumping wildly through time, ‘Spin' kaleidoscopically charts the interconnected lives of a group of lost souls, revealing threads that tie us all together.

Trip Around the Sun

by Jake Brasch

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

Phil and Suze are Parrotheads who have retired into a squabbly routine in their Margaritaville community in South Florida. But the night before they’re set to leave for Suze’s birthday cruise, Phil drops a bomb.

Phil and Suze are Parrotheads who have retired into a squabbly routine in their Margaritaville community in South Florida. But the night before they’re set to leave for Suze’s birthday cruise, Phil drops a bomb.

Salutations, I'm Creative Dave

by Jake Brasch

4
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
satire,
science fiction

Creative Dave is not your average housekeeping robot—he’s an artist. In fact, he wrote this play! His dialogue may be catastrophically bad, but he has an essential message for his family. Written entirely from a robot’s skewed perspective, ‘Salutations, I’m Creative Dave’ queers the American Family Drama into a batshit comedy about a robot who hates his family.

Creative Dave is not your average housekeeping robot—he’s an artist. In fact, he wrote this play! His dialogue may be catastrophically bad, but he has an essential message for his family. Written entirely from a robot’s skewed perspective, ‘Salutations, I’m Creative Dave’ queers the American Family Drama into a batshit comedy about a robot who hates his family.

The Reservoir

by Jake Brasch

12
Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

A lost, queer, neurotic mess of a twenty-something moves home to get sober. Struggling with memory loss, he finds unlikely allies in his four unpredictable grandparents.

A lost, queer, neurotic mess of a twenty-something moves home to get sober. Struggling with memory loss, he finds unlikely allies in his four unpredictable grandparents.

Our Tempest

by Jake Brasch

3
Cast Size
7
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
political

In the Spring of 2021, college students head into the forest to devise a sight-specific performance about Climate Change. It doesn't go as planned.

In the Spring of 2021, college students head into the forest to devise a sight-specific performance about Climate Change. It doesn't go as planned.

Adjustment

by Jake Brasch

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
romantic comedy

A couple in the throes of a sex game.
They’re hot. They’re smart. They’re funny.
They’re troubled. They’re resentful.
Let’s face it: They’re unwell.

A couple in the throes of a sex game.
They’re hot. They’re smart. They’re funny.
They’re troubled. They’re resentful.
Let’s face it: They’re unwell.