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Three junkies living in an abandoned apartment in Brooklyn try to form a family to combat madness and violence. What ensues is a stylized romp through imaginations and dreams.
Jake Shore
Jake Shore
Jake Shore is an award-winning playwright whose play entitled Holy Moly premiered at The Flea Theater in 2016 and was simultaneously released with its tandem novel, A Country for Fibbing. In 2017 Shore’s play The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown was selected as one of Playbill’s “13 Shows Not to Miss Off-Broadway.” His drama Down the Mountain and Across the Stream won the Overall Excellence in...
Jake Shore is an award-winning playwright whose play entitled Holy Moly premiered at The Flea Theater in 2016 and was simultaneously released with its tandem novel, A Country for Fibbing. In 2017 Shore’s play The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown was selected as one of Playbill’s “13 Shows Not to Miss Off-Broadway.” His drama Down the Mountain and Across the Stream won the Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Shore’s short stories have been published in Denver Quarterly, Hobart Pulp, Litro, New Contrast, J Journal, Ginosko Literary Journal, Eunoia Review, Soft Cartel, New American Legends, The Pitkin Review and others. He is currently the Executive Director for Student Services at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, where he also teaches. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College.