Jackson Tucker-Meyer

I am a fabulously autistic writer who seeks to encourage empathy through the embrace of the eccentric, the extravagant, the extreme, the experimental, and the extraordinary.

I write the works I wish I could have experienced when I was younger: seriously goofy and gleefully outrageous, reveling in juxtaposition and contradiction. The clash of the everyday and the absurd feels very natural to me, and I delight in using bizarre scenarios and over-the-top dialogue to send up all manner of arbitrary norms, from social class to gender roles.

I cartwheel past theatrical realism (a boringly neuronormative aesthetic) to create worlds where strangeness feels familiar and the ordinary feels unusual, ideally leaving audiences more accepting of difference and otherness.

Basically, I would like to make people’s hearts bigger by making plays that are larger than life.