More about Jaymes

I am a Texan playwright, actor, and educator living in Brooklyn. My work has been supported by Latinx Playwrights Circle, New York Theatre Workshop, Broadway Podcast Network/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Lark, The Ucross Foundation, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Company One, and The Barn at Lee. My Play A Plausible History of Xicotencatl II was a runner-up for the 2025 Venturous Fellowship and a finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. I developed my play Skull Rack At New York Theatre Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency. Skull Rack and A Plausible History of Xicotencatl II are part of an on-going series of plays examining the indigenous roots of Mexican-American identity.

From 2024 to 2025, I was a member of the Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab. I was also an Inaugural Candela Summer Fellow in 2023, supported by Latinx Playwrights Circle and the Dramatists Guild; The Summer Fellows then formed a collective called DIEZ, which received an Artist Grant from the The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) in 2024. We held Dieztination, a day of free creative workshops and community gathering, with NALAC’s support.

I have completed commissions for Vanderbilt University (Waiting for Enviroman), Rattlestick Theater/Broadway Podcast Network (Neither Nor), The University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Beyond Reform), and Artists’ Theatre of Boston (Who Owns What). Waiting for Enviroman was commissioned as part of Vanderbilt’s Eco-Grief project and produced at Vanderbilt in Fall of 2024. Neither Nor was commissioned as part of Isolated Incidents, a six-part audio series about the intersection of race and the pandemic. I co-created and co-wrote this series with fellow playwrights Laura Neill, Nicholas Kaidoo, Hayley Spivey, and Pascale Florestal. Beyond Reform was commissioned was digitally produced by UMass Amherst as a part of Josh Glenn-Kayden’s MFA directing thesis. Who Owns What was commissioned and produced as a part of this place/Displaced, a night of short plays about gentrification and displacement.

My play Tiny Fingerprints was produced at the University of Texas as a part of the UT New Theater Festival. Tiny Fingerprints has also been featured in Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Fresh Draft series in New York. In 2020, I won the Keene Prize for Literature for my play The Cucuy Will Find You. This play has also been featured at Playwrights’ Week at the Lark, The Austin Latinx New Play Festival, and the San Diego REP Latinx New Play festival.

MFA: The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

MAT: Brown University

BA: Dartmouth College