JAMIE HOVIS
PLAYWRIGHT. ACTOR.
DRAMATURG.
PLAYS
COUCH TROLL
When her sister Liz commits suicide, Ella Ashlinn is left to pick up the pieces. While clearing out her sister’s apartment, Ella discovers Liz’s journals from the months leading up to her death. Ella reads through them, uncovering details about her sister’s gradual depression and descent into psychosis. It seems that in the months before her death Liz began to be visited by her childhood imaginary friend, Krimblit, a troll who, according to Liz, lives in her couch. It turns out, however, that Krimblit may not be entirely imaginary. He has stolen Liz’s last journal and absconded with it deep into the bowels of the couch. In order for Ella to find closure she will have to follow him inside and, in doing so, confront her own personal demons.
Production history:
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Staged reading, Emerson College Newfest 2013
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Staged reading, Interim Writers 2013 Have you Read? Series
DEER FATHER, DEER SON
After he graduates high school, Shane faces the realization that he has no concept of the direction that his life is taking. He and his friends decide to trip mushrooms, one last hurrah before entering 'the real world.' However once the drugs begin to take effect Shane's world begins to disintegrate (literally) rather than become clearer and Shane is forced into an awakening that he may not be prepared to make. Deer Father, Deer Son is an expressionist summertime hot tub meditation in one act.
Production history:
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Staged reading, Horizon Theatre Company’s New South Play Festival
AD NAUSEUM
Two friends, Arnie and Ron, are spending an evening at Ron's apartment, one-upping each other in asinine explorations of internet wordplay, every once in a while retreating to the bathroom to vomit. "Samuel Beckett once said that 'the most fantastic aspect of the human mind is its insistence upon distinguishing fact from fiction.'" Or so Ron tells us in the opening monologue of Ad Nauseum. But in the context of Ron's apartment, isolated from the world outside, the fact that Samuel Beckett never said this quote hardly seems relevant. "I'll never forgive him for what he did, but I can't entirely blame him either," Ron tells us. By the end of the play 'what Arnie did' becomes painfully clear, and the results are truly nauseating.
Production history:
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Currently slated for production spring 2014
