Jack Wolfram

Paradise Untapped, a true-esque story rooted in critical fabulation, tells the story of Deborah Milton and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The two entered our world a lifetime apart in England to different world-renown intellectuals, tethered across time by a shared fiery intellect and creative compulsion. Both yearn to make a name for themselves and do right by their gifts, tell stories that will be remembered, but doing so proves diametrically opposed to their respective circumstances. Deborah, forced to transcribe Paradise Lost—her blind father’s magnum-opus-to-be—finds herself secretly rewriting his work to make it her own upon learning that John will marry her off once she outlives her use to him. Hers is a story of subterfuge, isolation, and heart-wrenching erasure.

A century away, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wants to tell a story of her own as well, but finds herself drowning in death and, accordingly, stories it seems no one but she can tell. Stories posed to die untold pile up one after the other as incessant deaths leave Mary in unfathomable isolation. A childless parent, a parentless child, and a bestower of life surrounded by the lifeless, Mary Shelley pours her own story and those that she carries into that of the Creature in her developing novel, Frankenstein, including—via the otherwise-silenced legacy embedded in Paradise Lost—Deborah’s.

After learning that their favorite Teaching Assistant needs a fortune to continue cancer treatment, a disabled nonbinary teacher, their girlfriend, and their aging coworker plot a heist to carry our during the next fifth-grade field trip. Their target? Two centuries-year old salmon on tour at a Washington State fish ladder.

this play-in-progress explores the oft-untold history that led to Irish assimilation into American "whiteness" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as told through generational flashbacks anchored in three locations: a Philadelphia funeral parlor, a Saint Patrick's Day party at McConnell's Pub, and the gangway of a boat.

An elderly Irish-American matriarch's death leaves her descendants grappling with absence and togetherness alike.

Two siblings isolating in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic receive an unexpected visitor. This “bake-off” play was co-written over the course of one weekend upon receiving the following ingredients inspired by the poem “Suggested Donation” by Heather Christle.

• Six nail clippers.
• The line, “The deer are awake”.
• The line, “Surrender to me your beautiful shirt”.
• 3 characters.
• A character sings badly.
• 10 seconds of silence.
• Siblings.
• A diary entry or an archive, literal or conceptual.