Jaisey Bates

FULL LENGTH.
On a day in the northernmost U.S. city two whales are freed and two boys are born. Raised as brothers within a culture and climate in crisis, they join the Alaskan National Guard in high school and are activated for service after graduation. From the freezing Arctic Circle to the sweltering deserts of Iraq the past and present coexist in a race against time trying to bring everyone together before it’s too late.

Winner of the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize

FULL LENGTH.
Four storytellers try to save our "But soft what WHITE through yonder THEATER breaks" W.A.T. world by gifting voice to Other’d words in a dangerous quest across dimensions where every breath is a RIOT OF BEAUTY, a revolutionary act of COURAGE grit GRACE faith FIRE. In a mortals/mortally wounded world rapidly running out of time how can we find ways to survive – heal ourselves and our words and our worlds – and together thrive?

Created and developed during the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival.

FULL LENGTH.
Zee tries to write. Tee and She are four days gone.  LIGHTNING: a predatory white Coyote with a bard ruff and sharp white teeth in the window. THUNDER: an otherworldly howl and pounding at the door. Bee storms in, setting off a dangerous dance of blood memories, grief, horror and hope as HISTORY -- written with black ink in red blood by white hands on white pages -- opens its eyes. AND ITS MOUTH.  

Written through the Vagrancy Theater's 2019-2020 Writers' Group and its 2020 Blossoming Festival of New Works via Zoom.

SHORT ONE-ACT.
A grieving father, a new border patrol officer, two lost children and The Man in the Maze cross paths in the BorderLands under the Sonoran Desert sun. A Peoplehood REAL TIME one-act play by Jaisey Bates. Part of #TheatreActionImmigration.

SHORT ONE-ACT.
A suicidal lobsterman poet, a lost NYC college student, and a Blue Heron spirit cross paths in the Maine woods. A Peoplehood REAL TIME 25-minute one-act play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT ONE-ACT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 20-minute post-apocalyptic coming of age play featuring 2.5 screenwriters, by Jaisey Bates.
Adapted from early scenes in a pilot based on an impossible epic radio play, this play is thinking of becoming a reduced cast (probably 12 to 14 or so) impossible epic full-length stage play someday.

SHORT.
The Final Cross-time Visitation by an Unaware Alien Messenger in Disguise as a Member of the Human Species for the Purpose of Experiential Data Accumulation in the Final Years Before The Great Unbecoming of the Oort Cloud Planet, ‘Earth That Was’.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
Two AI-human hybrids abandoned on a dying ship meet in their final moments and live infinite lives together as they dance in the snow before a swifty approaching sun.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play by Jaisey Bates.

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A hybrid and a bot lost in space* seek a new home for their ship's cargo of elemental entity matter from Earth That Was.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play by Jaisey Bates.

*after a long ago catastrophic metaverse shifting black hole encounter that alt dimension and/or annihilation vanished all crew save these two.

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A retelling of the Icarus myth in a galaxy far, far away.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play by Jaisey Bates.

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A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute ensemble spoken word play honoring Misty Upham, written by Jaisey Bates in collaboration with Misty's family and friends.

Part of the livestreamed ‘Say Their Names’ performance readings and panel discussion on October 23, 2020, a production of Honor Roll in association with the African American Policy Forum’s #SayHerName Campaign, National Action Network and The Breath Project.

SHORT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play re: school shootings and our dying planet, by Jaisey Bates.
Combines EenieMeenieMineyNO and Sisters Three & the Tree.

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Three star sisters and their storyteller sibling try to save the world.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 8 to 10-minute play by Jaisey Bates.

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A Peoplehood REAL TIME 10-minute play re: gender roles and language in which two gods make a bet and head to LA and bigly lose (their powers sanity way), adapted from an early scene in a new full-length play, THE ACADEMY, by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
Two documentary filmmakers record a starving polar bear as Time watches.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 5-7 minute play -- or a 3-4 minute monologue -- by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 5-minute play about Monsters, by Jaisey Bates.

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A fourth grade student dreams of her quinceañera. But it's May 24th in Uvalde, Texas.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 2-minute monologue or 5-minute ensemble spoken word play by Jaisey Bates.

Written as part of the CodeRedPlaywrights project.
Honoring the memories of Eliahna "Ellie", 9, her classmates and her teachers.
While inspired by Ellie, the character of Rosa and her thoughts and actions are imaginary.

SHORT.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 2-minute monologue or ensemble spoken word play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A spunky tv tuned to Dallas, a Penobscot man from the 1600s,
a temp childcare worker and two 5-year-old orphans
cross paths in a group home in Portland, Maine.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME scene from RUN, by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 4-minute play re: school shootings, by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
July 2016 - Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge, LA - Philando Castile, Falcon Heights, MN.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates.

Why these words: Summer 2016 waking horror dreams led to this gathering of words in support of mutual healing, strengthened community and positive change. That we might build with our joined words an enduring shelter from such storms. That we might write a new story worthy of our children, our children’s children. That we might learn, in the precious few moments we are gifted, to walk together in beauty this beloved ground.

Why these words in this way: Each of us is composed of many voices, inside, outside. We read our world and each other through the ever-changing and evolving synapses and interstitial spaces of all these voices. Nontraditionally multicasting words and voices is a way in which this writer tries to bring into living play the way variable perspectives and resultant textures, dimensions, tensions and interplay dialogues of differences write who we are and our world.

SHORT.
It's HOT. But it's October. In MAINE. Two spirits wait for their daughter.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME scene from RUN, a play by Jaisey Bates.

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A man has lost his memory on a rocky shore.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short play by Jaisey Bates.

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Lucia Joyce, in a mental asylum in Occupied France, learns her father, James Joyce, has died.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word poem play by Jaisey Bates.

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A woman visits the land of her ancestors for the first time.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A Native Alaskan government boarding school survivor and US Army Vet shares his story.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME scene from RUN, a play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A woman wakes from dreams of crying children in cages.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 2-minute monologue or ensemble spoken word play by Jaisey Bates.
Part of #TheatreActionImmigration.

SHORT.
WAIT -- this woman has something to say.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME 2-minute monologue or ensemble spoken word play by Jaisey Bates.

SHORT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates.
Combines they were dancing and i had a dream but now i'm woke.

Why these words: Summer 2016 waking horror dreams led to this gathering of words in support of mutual healing, strengthened community and positive change. That we might build with our joined words an enduring shelter from such storms. That we might write a new story worthy of our children, our children’s children. That we might learn, in the precious few moments we are gifted, to walk together in beauty this beloved ground.

Why these words in this way: Each of us is composed of many voices, inside, outside. We read our world and each other through the ever-changing and evolving synapses and interstitial spaces of all these voices. Nontraditionally multicasting words and voices is a way in which this writer tries to bring into living play the way variable perspectives and resultant textures, dimensions, tensions and interplay dialogues of differences write who we are and our world.

SHORT.
Two letters from Allies of the Indigenous Silenced: ONE: War/Paint and TWO: War/Games.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates,
written for THE HEAL THE DIVIDE Protest Plays Initiative.

SHORT.
ONE: War/Paint -- A Letter from Allies of the Indigenous Silenced.
WAR: On 12-26-1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged before an audience of thousands.
PAINT: On 5-26-17 the New Native Theatre’s event had no audience because their would-be audience members went to the Walker to protest a representation of the scaffold built to silence the Dakota 38.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates,
written for THE HEAL THE DIVIDE Protest Plays Initiative.

SHORT.
TWO: War/Games -- A Letter from Allies of the Indigenous Silenced.
WAR: A town where the government paid bounties for Native captives or scalps whether man, woman or child.
GAMES: A town with a chamber of commerce whose leadership set up “The First Annual Hunt for the Indian!” treasure hunt aiming to encourage shoppers to Shop Local during the holidays.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates,
written for THE HEAL THE DIVIDE Protest Plays Initiative.

SHORT.
A Peoplehood REAL TIME short spoken word ensemble poem play by Jaisey Bates, written for AFTER ORLANDO, an international theatre action curated by Missing Bolts Productions and NoPassport Theatre Alliance & Press, published 2024.

Why these words: Summer 2016 waking horror dreams led to this gathering of words in support of mutual healing, strengthened community and positive change. That we might build with our joined words an enduring shelter from such storms. That we might write a new story worthy of our children, our children’s children. That we might learn, in the precious few moments we are gifted, to walk together in beauty this beloved ground.

Why these words in this way: Each of us is composed of many voices, inside, outside. We read our world and each other through the ever-changing and evolving synapses and interstitial spaces of all these voices. Nontraditionally multicasting words and voices is a way in which this writer tries to bring into living play the way variable perspectives and resultant textures, dimensions, tensions and interplay dialogues of differences write who we are and our world.