Jake Brasch

Jake Brasch

Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer sober clown from Colorado and a graduating playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. The World Premiere of his play The Reservoir will be presented in 2025 as a co-production between the Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse. Jake is a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group and a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. He is the winner of the Kennedy Center...
Jake Brasch (he/they) is a queer sober clown from Colorado and a graduating playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. The World Premiere of his play The Reservoir will be presented in 2025 as a co-production between the Denver Center, Alliance Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse. Jake is a member of the 2024 Page 73 Writers Group and a 2023-2024 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist. He is the winner of the Kennedy Center's 2024 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. Their work has been developed by New York Stage and Film, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Farm Theater, ArtHouse Inkubator, Letter of Marque Theater Company, Eden Theater Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. He is currently under commission from the EST/Sloan Project and The Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project. They're a proud graduate of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, The Farm Theater's Development Workshop, and The LAByrinth Intensive Ensemble. As a composer, Jake has written music and lyrics for several films, plays, and podcasts. He works as a birthday party clown in the tri-state area and is currently developing a series based on his clowning career. They are also developing a Grotowski-based physical dramaturgy pedagogy for playwrights. BFA from NYU Tisch (Experimental Theatre Wing/New Studio on Broadway).

Plays

  • How to Draw a Triangle by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 1
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    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: queerness, Colorado + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: queerness, Colorado, Denver, 2000s, LGBTQ
    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.
  • Family Weekend by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 1
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    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: addiction, Recovery + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: addiction, Recovery, codependency, Colorado, dark comedy, ensemble
    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.
  • Trip Around the Sun by Jake Brasch
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: Jimmy Buffet, Margaritaville + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: Jimmy Buffet, Margaritaville, florida, death with dignity, dementia, two-hander
    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, in a panic about his declining memory, drops a bomb. Over one margarita-fueled sleepless night, the couple reckons with the plans for their final days. ‘Trip Around the Sun’ is an intimate (very) dark comedy about...
    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, in a panic about his declining memory, drops a bomb. Over one margarita-fueled sleepless night, the couple reckons with the plans for their final days. ‘Trip Around the Sun’ is an intimate (very) dark comedy about the dignity we deserve in life and death.
  • Spin by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 4
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    8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    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.
  • The Reservoir by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 9
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: sobriety, addiction + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: sobriety, addiction, Addiction Recovery, judaism, Alzheimer's Disease, jazzercise
    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.
  • Salutations, I'm Creative Dave by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 3
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    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Robots
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: Robots
    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.
  • Our Tempest by Jake Brasch
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: climate change, based on Shakespeare + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, political
    Keyword: climate change, based on Shakespeare, college
    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
    Recommendations: 2
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    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Sex, love + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Sex, love, Relationships, gay, LGBTQ, 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.