2009 2009

Jesus Hates Me

Playwright: Wayne Lemon
Director: Oanh Nguyen*
Set Designer: Starlet Jacobs
Lighting Designer: K.C. Wilkerson
Costume Designer: Erika C. Miller*
Sound Designer: Dave Mickey*
Fight Choreographer: Michael Irish
Stage Manager: Tanae Beyer*

January 30, 2009 — March 1, 2009

by Wayne Lemon

West Coast Premiere

“ Top-notch...a seriocomic mosaic ”
Orange County Register

“ Detailed direction, an impressive design, and a wonderful cast! ”
Los Angeles Times

An insightful and hilarious collision of faith and blasphemy for those desperate to find identity, sanity, faith and freedom

Irreverent, thought-provoking dark comedy by veteran television writer Wayne Lemon (“Grace Under Fire,” “The Torkelsons”). Somewhere in South Central Texas is the “Blood of the Lamb” Miniature Golf Course. Ethan, an ex-high school football star, is desperate to find identity, sanity, faith and freedom under the gaze of a Wal-Mart mannequin transformed into Jesus on the cross at the 17th hole. Follow Ethan on an insightful, unpredictable and hilarious week as he tries to escape from his religious fanatic mother, a suicidal dishwasher, a pot-smoking cop, a beer-swillin’ good ol’ boy, possibly the love of his life, and of course the J-man.

This play contains graphic language, some bare flesh and a mannequin that resembles the J-Man himself!