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SMUTA  
dir. Gabi Carrubba

w/ James Scully , Noah Wolfe, and Josh Mooiweer.

Lighting by Shane Hennssey
Sound by David Peck

Two strangers trapped in a gay-bash basement in Moscow pass the time while waiting to find out what happens next.

Production History
2023 - Reading at DogTown Play Festival
2023 - Production at GymnopedieNY
2025 - New Production 

“Smuta tracks the uneasy precipice of nationalist horror, and identity that holds a bold mirror to the great question of the ever illusive idea of progress.”

-Tom Meglio for AltCitizen

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OTHER PEOPLE’S DEAD DADS
dir. Rory Pelsue

w/ Cole Doman, Jess Darrow, Julian Sanchez, Jessica Litwak, Zoe Mann, and Patric Madden

Costumes by Cole McCarty
Lighting by Nicole E. Lang
Sound by Kathy Runuva
Set by Josh Barilla

A paid mourner travels across turn of the millenium America impersonating people’s lost and dead gay sons at the funerals of their fathers.

Production History
2022 - 29 Hour Reading
2023 - JCC Open Reading Presentation
2024 - Workshop at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
2024 - Production at Dixon Place/Arterial Productions


“Growing up queer and in a family can be an isolating experience. Sometimes it’s better; sometimes worse. Sometimes growing up in a family makes queer boys run away – only to find that the world they’ve run to is empty, disconnected from any sense of real rootedness and meaning. In Jacob Wasson’s play, we watch one queer boy confront his made up world of nothing in real time, and that’s a remarkable something.”

- Michael Valladares for Art and Survival

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IN PRAISE OF FOLLY
dir. Jeffery Self

w/ Jacob Wasson, Mia Sterbini, and Daniel Murphy

Sound by David Peck

A Court Fool battles an offstage tomato-throwing foe as he prepares to tell a joke at the Queen’s Execution. 

Production History
2024 - Presentation at The Brick/Transport Group
2025 - Workshop with Zachary Hausman Productions
2025 - Production produced in collaboration with FLAMER

JACOB WASSON

(b. 1996) is a playwright and theatre artist based in Brooklyn, NY.

He has been profiled in PAPER, Study Magazine, IndieWire, and Alt-Citizen.

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Upcoming Projects

JULY/AUG 2025
Camino Real (performer) - Williamstown Theatre Festival dir. Dustin Wills

AUG 2025
Smuta (new production) - produced by Common Era and Ladyfag

SEPT 2025
Danton’s Death  (workshop)- In Residence at The Barn at Lee.

FALL 2025
El Dorado (workshop) - Little Island

SUMMER 2026
El Dorado (premiere production) - Little Island

FALL 2026
Danton’s Death (premiere production) - The Barn At Lee

TBD
untitled new musical with Jeffery Self