Jeffrey Luke Baker

Jeffrey Luke Baker is a playwright from Mission Viejo, Orange County, California. He attended DePaul University in Chicago where he recieved a BFA in Playwriting and a BA in German Studies. His play Ascension was a mainstage productions in DePaul's 23/24 season as part of its New Playwrights Series. Before Chicago, he attended Fullerton Community College where he wrote and staged 6 plays including his one-act No Girls Allowed, which also received a production at Cal State Fullerton. He is currently a part of Fulbright Austria teaching English in Steiermark.

Jeffrey Luke Baker is a playwright from Mission Viejo, Orange County, California. He attended DePaul University in Chicago where he recieved a BFA in Playwriting and a BA in German Studies. His play Ascension was a mainstage productions in DePaul's 23/24 season as part of its New Playwrights Series. Before Chicago, he attended Fullerton Community College where he wrote and staged 6 plays including his one-act No Girls Allowed, which also received a production at Cal State Fullerton. He is currently a part of Fulbright Austria teaching English in Steiermark.

Scripts

Pamphlet Plays, Volume 1

by Jeffrey Luke Baker

Cast Size
1—99
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
faith-based,
fantasy,
farce,
horror,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof,
period,
political,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

The first currated volume of my of short plays from my Substack, Pamphlet Plays.
Includes:
- Managed Retreat
- Austerity 1
More to come.

The first currated volume of my of short plays from my Substack, Pamphlet Plays.
Includes:
- Managed Retreat
- Austerity 1
More to come.

MIRAGE

by Jeffrey Luke Baker

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
faith-based,
horror,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller,
political,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

A golf course community in the center of Death Valley is having trouble with climate activists.

A golf course community in the center of Death Valley is having trouble with climate activists.

Ascension

by Jeffrey Luke Baker

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
tragedy

The morning after graduating high school, Matthew wakes to a future that looks bleak. Addicted to porn, smoking too much weed, alienated from his father, Matthew has no job, no friends, no college to look forward to--no future. Desperate to find meaning, Matthew reconnects with Felix over steroid fueled work outs, and finds himself lured back to the cultish Ascensionist church to perform in a play that asks...

The morning after graduating high school, Matthew wakes to a future that looks bleak. Addicted to porn, smoking too much weed, alienated from his father, Matthew has no job, no friends, no college to look forward to--no future. Desperate to find meaning, Matthew reconnects with Felix over steroid fueled work outs, and finds himself lured back to the cultish Ascensionist church to perform in a play that asks: what if Abraham disobeyed God and chose not to kill Isaac? This humorous yet dark play depicts the spiraling impacts of misplaced faith and toxic masculinity.​

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Festering

by Jeffrey Luke Baker

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
political

Deep in southern Orange County (California), two sisters and their husbands come together for the first time in a while after the deaths of both family's children. Divided in their politics, the night descends into chaos as everyone struggles to keep their cool and disagreements fail to be accepted or mended.

Deep in southern Orange County (California), two sisters and their husbands come together for the first time in a while after the deaths of both family's children. Divided in their politics, the night descends into chaos as everyone struggles to keep their cool and disagreements fail to be accepted or mended.

No Girls Allowed

by Jeffrey Luke Baker

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
political

A Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) Bishop calls his two counselors in to discuss an accusation of sexual assault within their ward (congregation).

(TW: mentions and descriptions of sexual assault.)

A Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) Bishop calls his two counselors in to discuss an accusation of sexual assault within their ward (congregation).

(TW: mentions and descriptions of sexual assault.)