The Santa Closet

Jeff is the co-founder of Houses on the Moon Theater Co. Playwright: Tara’s Crossing (Tenement Theatre, NY), Building Houses on the Moon (City Theatre, Pittsburgh), and De Novo, which he also directed (New York Theatre Workshop/Next Door and 59E59 St. Theaters, Palacio Tecleño, El Salvador). Writer/Performer of MotherSON (HERE Art Center), Fourth Floor (Mumbai, India), The Barefoot Café (Colombo, Sri Lanka), The Cultural Center of the Philippines, New End Theatre and Oval House Theatre (London, UK), Edinburgh Fringe and Theater Works in Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Best Actor (Bailiwick Rep, Chicago). Audience Favorite, Best Playwriting, and Best Male Solo Performer (National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival). Best Male Performance (Absolut Gay Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland). Jeff’s other solo play, The Santa Closet (formerly Santa Claus is Coming Out), premiered at the Kirk Theatre on Off Broadway’s Theatre Row (Penguin Rep), revival Houses on the Moon Theater Co (Teatro Circulo). Diversionary Theatre (San Diego), Celebration Theatre (Los Angeles), and the Dublin International Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. The play received the Award for Best of the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. Jeff wrote the Television pilot for Jim Henson’s CityKids, which received an Emmy nomination for Best Children’s Special and an Ollie Award for Excellence in Children’s Programming and was a staff writer for the same program. Jeff is a MOTH Grand Slam Champion and has been featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour.  He is the host, director, and co-producer of the Houses on the Moon Podcast, available on all podcast platforms.

Jamie Rose Bukowski graduated from Pace University’s School of Performing Arts with a B.A. in Stage Management. She’s very grateful to have worked with Houses On The Moon on 5 of their full productions and countless readings and events since 2016, and considers it a second home. She has also recently worked at Goodspeed OperaHouse, A.C.T. of CT, White Plains Performing Arts Center, and with LAByrinth Theatre Company. She has been on tour with The Kite Runner, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rockin’ Road to Dublin and worked regionally with Quisisana Musical Theatre Resort.