J.K. Richards

A Playwright and Ensemble reenact stories from the Bible, entirely from the Playwright's extremely faulty memory. An exploration of storytelling and memory.

Malware is a full-length drama about family trees, digital ghosts, political radicalization, and the horror of becoming a guest in your own home.

At a family-owned bed and breakfast in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Liza returns home—with her new girlfriend in tow—for the first time after four years in college and a recent loss in the family. As Liza realizes the paths of conspiracy her father and little brother are walking down may be ones they cannot come back from, her homecoming rewires her from a prodigal daughter to a bed and breakfast guest.

Ada refuses to leave her apartment. A bug becomes something new. One-million bugs scurry across the stage. Ada and Bug attempt to figure out what the hell anything means. BUG is a new play from J.K. Richards that explores the absurdity of gender, the meaning of life, and bugs. BUG tells the story of an insect who wants to learn how to be a human being and a human being who needs to learn the same thing. It is a play for cicadas, centipedes, flies, beetles, people who love life already, and those who try everyday to.

Two ex-girlfriends walk into a Planned Parenthood. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it isn’t very funny.