About Me
Jack Towhey Calk is a playwright, screenwriter, director, and voice actor raised in Chicagoland and based in Astoria, NY. His writing has been produced or developed at The Tank, The Asolo Rep, The Motor Company, InVersion Theatre, Hudson Theatre Works, St. Lou Fringe, First Run Theatre, and Pendant Productions. He voices Static Man in the hit horror podcast Archive 81, which was adapted into a 2022 Netflix series; other voice appearances include Ivar, Timewalker in Valiant Comics’ Archer and Armstrong: The Michelangelo Code and Kaylock in Pendant Audio’s long-running series The Kingery.
He was the assistant to Emmy-winning creator James Manos, jr. (Dexter, The Sopranos), and consulted as an expert on Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning play A Case for the Existence of God at Signature Theatre Company. He previously assisted Hunter at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Halley Feiffer at Playwrights Horizons and NY Stage & Film. Training: Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA, Playwriting), Saint Louis University (BA, Theatre Management, with a minor in Theatre), and the Upright Citizens Brigade (sketch comedy).