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

Recent audio play collaborations with Teatro del Pueblo, The Ugly Radio, and self-produced at the coalition. His stage plays have been produced at the University of Wyoming, Las Vegas Little Theater, 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 Screencraft Horror 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. His work has received support from Creative West and the Wyoming Arts Council.

As a performer, Jaime focuses on voiceover work for indie projects and is the singing half of the acoustic duo Cruz & Jonez. 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 (AA), playwriting/directing (BFA) at the University of Wyoming, and has received training from Lifetime Arts’ Creative Aging program to better serve the older adult population in Wyoming.

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