J. Ravenscroft believes playwriting is about sharing what you know, and values art-making that speaks to the present and serves the future. Theatre embraces the beautiful intersection of community healing and individual catharsis. This transformative power give us the opportunity to share moments, ask questions, and find answers about life and truth.
Ravenscroft’s play ‘STOP.’ was published as part of RENAISSANCE, a short-play anthology, in 2023, and later in 2026 was featured in the Adams Theatre Company’s New Year New Works Festival (available to watch here).
A staged reading of a new work is in production to premiere Dec. 14th, 2026, with the Chicago Dramatists First Draft series.
Click here to read her work on the New Play Exchange.
Red Glare
2 acts, 98 pages, 6 actors
Red Glare is a reflection of 21st century America, a gritty look into a family of five during an unprecedented climate change event: the moon getting closer to the Earth.
Using symbols of pigs, hospital rooms, Antarctica, and the moon, this story about the impact of whiteness on American families and opens a conversation on whiteness being defined by emptiness, sterility, coldness, unsustainable growth, and the rejection of Earth.
How do we decide what is inevitable, and what we have the power to change?
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