https://www.jackcalk.com/home daily 1.0 2025-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/c07def1f-0c8f-411f-a4e6-0d325f8c86c3/Wieners.jpg https://www.jackcalk.com/bio daily 0.75 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/653a91ab-3fb4-43bb-8ea3-ba38f6ea5558/Seaweed.jpg Bio - 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 the premiere of 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). https://www.jackcalk.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-04-17 https://www.jackcalk.com/writing-portfolio daily 0.75 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/abf6fa57-dbb0-4418-8b90-96917c07a14d/fritz-haber%281%29%282%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/1635265814295-O96XCI9E5U1AV6R6SDNC/unsplash-image-Yv-2G04sKD8.jpg Writing Portfolio - The Sun Never Rises in Harding, Missouri The sun hasn’t risen over Benjamin’s hometown in a generation, and he’s planned his whole life for what he’ll do when he finally gets out. But one morning the sun creeps over the horizon- just for a moment- and a Prophet whirls into town, with a sinister message for Benjamin: he must cut out his own heart, or bring doom upon the people of Harding, Missouri. (4M, 5W) Finalist, Columbia @ Roundabout Series, Roundabout Theatre Company Semi-Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Developed at The Tank (with the support of the New York City Artist Corps) and Columbia University School of the Arts (under supervision from Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, and Anne Bogart) Find on the New Play Exchange, or Contact Me if you’d like to read! Listen to a demo of the track “Scream” on SoundCloud! Music by James Smart, lyrics by Jack Towhey Calk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/1635267461665-0JIGI9HTB5JVETII2Z4A/unsplash-image-ySIC8BBnRGY.jpg Writing Portfolio - The Ghosts of Patriot Park In this half-hour drama, a suicidal dropout inches her way to recovery while struggling to hold down a job at the amusement park haunted by her dead dad. Coverfly Red List Finalist, Chicago Screenplay Awards Finalist, ISA FastTrack Fellowship Find on Coverfly or Contact Me if you’d like to read! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/a2432bb1-b79c-4a3c-8881-c0752297861f/Caroline+and+Niall.jpg Writing Portfolio - Big St. Germain After years estranged, young father Marshall warily agrees to spend a long weekend with his sister Kasey at a cabin once owned by their late grandfather. As they and their partners settle in for three days of drinking, dancing, nostalgia, and singing novelty fish, Marshall finally begins to relax- maybe he and his sister can have a relationship after all. But Kasey begins talking about visions she’s been having, Marshall’s wife and Kasey’s boyfriend each disappear in the middle of the night, and finally Kasey asks her brother for something he cannot give- sending the ground beneath their reunion crumbling. (2M, 2W) Developed at Columbia University School of the Arts (under supervision from Jon Robin Baitz and David Henry Hwang). Find on the New Play Exchange, or Contact Me if you’d like to read! Pictured: Niall Powderly* and Caroline Amos*. Rehearsal photo by Annie Jin Wang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61780feca77f531b585a3ebd/649d4613-3701-47e6-8e15-976401eabf29/unsplash-image-gnYfMrL0rck.jpg Writing Portfolio - Blood by Law A year after his daughter’s untimely death, an erratic Irish Catholic patriarch struggling with Parkinson’s invites her estranged fiancée and the rest of his fractured multiracial family to a dinner at his home. When his daughter’s ghost joins them at the table, playing the upright bass she left behind, everyone’s wounds bleed afresh in ways they could not have predicted. (4M, 3W) Finalist, Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Semi-finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Find on the New Play Exchange, or Contact Me if you’d like to read!