Second edition, Upstage Left Press, 2026
When Churchyards Yawn
Four plays about memory, ritual, collapse, and survival.

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Jeanmarie Simpson is an American theatre artist whose life’s work centres women who challenge systems of power. She is a playwright, actor, director, and educator whose solo and ensemble works explore memory, resistance, and grief.
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Four plays in which the past is not past, the dead are not silent, and familiar stories open to reveal the lives concealed inside them.
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Themes throughout the work include memory, political history, ritual, survival, gender, mythology, Shakespearean inheritance, and contemporary performance.
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Jeanmarie Simpson does not just expose the experience of life in the military, she humanizes it.Huffington Post
Coming in Hot is a tour de force. If you haven’t seen it, seek it out.Tucson Weekly
It may be the best one I’ve seen in Nevada thus far.Reno News and Review, on Richard III
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