“Hurricane Andrew: the Play”, the new one-act play by Zachary Michael Jack debuted at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival September 3rd. Broadway World praised the show’s humor and timeliness in advance of Irma as thoughts and prayers go out to Floridians impacted by the incoming storm. Images from the standing ovation given the performers at the Short Play Showcase and of the house on the fest’s opening night follow.
Zachary Michael Jack’s one-act play Hurricane Andrew will debut at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival on Sunday, September 3 at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts as part of the short play showcase.
Directed by Gabe Brazil, Hurricane Andrew stars Jakob Nordstrom and Hannah Richardson. Visit the show’s webpage at www.hurricaneandrewtheplay.org
ZACHARY MICHAEL JACK has published more than two dozen books in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, literary journalism, creative nonfiction, and personal essay for adults and young adults alike, in addition to his work as an active playwright. Zachary’s fiction has earned national runner-up honors in its class in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award; his poetry has been awarded the Prentice Hall Prize, and his nonfiction has been shortlisted for best books of the year. The author and his work have been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the Washington Examiner, among many others. Zachary’s eclectic books have been favorably reviewed by industry-leading opinion-makers such as The New York Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly, Choice, Kirkus, and Foreword Reviews.
Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American Heartland by Zachary Michael Jack was featured on this week’s Successful Farming Radio Magazine. Hosted by Darrell Anderson, the show, now in its twentieth year, is syndicated on over 360 stations across the nation.
Zachary Michael Jack read from his new book of nonfiction Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American
Heartland at Coastal Alabama College in Fairhope as part of the 2017 GCACWT.
Wish You Were Here: Love and Longing in an American Heartland was the subject of a recent television interview. Watch the segment with author Zachary Michael Jack here.
Iconic Midwest bookstore Prairie Lights hosts Zachary Michael Jack and his latest nonfiction book Wish You Here Here: Loving and Longing in an American Heartland as part of their long-running Live from Prairie Lights broadcast reading series in partnership with the University of Iowa digital archives.
Zachary Michael Jack’s six op-eds published during the week before and after the Inauguration landed in national venues from coast to coast, from the Des Moines Register, to the San Francisco Chronicle, to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to the Washington Examiner. Read more about the breadth of the national outreach in the news story “Zachary Michael Jack reaches national audience.”
Truman State University Press has recently released the long-awaited Midwest memoir by Zachary Michael Jack Wish You Were Here, Love and Longing in an American Heartland. Early news and reviews may be found at the publisher website.
