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Featured Playwright
Jay Sharpe (Astraeus)
About Me: Jay Astraeus (they/them) is a Birmingham based writer focusing on disabled and nonbinary experiences. They also work as a proof-reader and dramaturg. They graduated with a First Class Masters degree in Playwriting and Dramaturgy with the University of Glasgow. Outside of playwriting, Jay Astraeus is a performance poet and short story writer. Their work has been featured in the Transmuted Journal, and was featured as part of a Queer Arts Festival in with the University of Glasgow.
Featured Play
Watchdog
Two young women, Lexie and Sam, break into a synagogue late at night to confront Hanna, who is spending the night watching over a member of the synagogue who has passed away. In Judaism, a body cannot be left alone between death and burial, and to watch over someone in this way is considered the best mitzvah (good deed) that one Jewish person can do for another. After ten years of searching for the person who killed their sister in a hit-and-run, Lexie and Sam believe that Hanna is the person they have been looking for. With Sam hiding in the closet with a camera and Lexie posing as a homeless person seeking shelter, the two attempt to get Hanna’s recorded confession. This play explores notions of forgiveness and redemption, and asks what happens when someone is confronted with a person they believe to be beyond forgiveness.
Playwright: Kayla Feldman