Jaime Alejandro Cruz

Jaime Alejandro Cruz (he/him) is a Mexican-American, award-winning playwright, podcaster, and multimedia creative raised in Wyoming. He writes and records stuff.

His plays have been produced at the Las Vegas Little Theater, the University of Wyoming, and Rain City Projects, among others. Jaime has created educational plays for young audiences for the Casper Children’s Theater, Pine Bluffs High School, and more. His supernatural coming-of-age screenplay, The Inherited, was a Screamcraft International Semifinalist, as well as a ScriptLab International Quarterfinalist. Jaime’s work has been workshopped and developed at The American College Theater Festival at the Kennedy Center, Last Frontier Theater Conference, University of Las Vegas, Relative Theatrics, Northwest Playwrights, and others. He was recently invited to serve as panelist for the Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award for play/screenwriting.

As a performer, Jaime focuses on voiceover work for indie projects and is the singing half of the acoustic duo Cruz & Jonez. In a rare offline performance, Jaime was recently onstage as a University of Wyoming visiting artist, in Robert Con David-Undiano’s Bless Me, Coatlicue, the first play about the great Chicano writer Rudolfo Anaya.

To serve fellow independent creatives, Jaime hosts and produces the Arts Calling Podcast, a showcase of artists in the literary, visual, and performing arts. He is also the founder of the Coalition for Digital Narratives, a gathering place committed to short-form storytelling, audio projects, and home of the coalitionworks literary journal. Through an absurdist immigrant lens, Jaime creates stories about family, working-class people, and outsiders. Jaime studied theater performance at Casper College, and playwriting/directing at the University of Wyoming.

Alongside his creative career, Jaime has worn many hats, including those of small business owner, employment specialist, case manager, business representative, and multimedia creative. His work experience in the human services field influences his projects tremendously.