WRITING

When I am not performing in new works, I’m writing them! I am a playwright and screenwriter, with one soon to be published play and more to come.

approx. 45 minutes. 1F/NB, 1NB

BUG

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.

Event poster featuring a colorful close-up of a beetle with text overlaid, promoting a BUG by J.K. Richards at The Tank on August 11

Malware

appox. 90 minutes. 3F, 2M

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 just another bed and breakfast guest.

Malware is a new play about gender, family, and growing up in a new world. It explores digital memories, childhood in the 2020s, and the holes we will dig ourselves in to hide from our grief.

A collage of various images including abstract art, a person reading at night, a living room, a child, digital art, and a giant hand puppet.