Independent Arts News Reporting SoHo Playhouse to present world premiere of Jiggs Burgess’ Wounded, directed by Del Shores
Reported on Friday, February 28, 2025.
Pictured Above: Shaw Jones, Craig Taggart, Kristen McCullough. Photo Credit: Contributed.
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The Off-Broadway previews of Wounded staring Shaw Jones, Kristen McCullough and Craig Taggart. Performances begin February 25 and will run through March 16
New York, NY – SoHo Playhouse presents the world premiere of Jiggs Burgess’ Wounded, directed by Del Shores. Wounded, the winner of the 2024 SoHo Playhouse International Fringe Encore Theater Series Overall Excellence Award, runs Off-Broadway February 25 – March 16, 2025 in a limited engagement for 21 performances. Previews begin February 25 for a February 28 opening.
A nobody who believes he’s somebody. A frustrated mother and daughter. An ex-con looking to move on. Welcome to Wounded. Carrol could’ve been somebody, after all he had a book made into a movie, but his unhealed past got in the way. Katie had a devoted husband and a bright and beautiful little girl until, in a split second, everything changed. In spite of graduating with honors from Baylor, Robert stumbled down the road to addiction and eventually prison. In this darkest of comedies, a trio of lost souls cross in a take-no-prisoners battle of psychological warfare.
Wounded was originally presented as a one act at the 2024 SoHo Playhouse International Fringe Encore Theater Series. The world premiere of the expanded full length play is comprised of two acts, and runs approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission.
The cast includes Shaw Jones, Kristen McCullough and Craig Taggart.
The production team includes Evan Frank (Set Design), Carter Ford (Light Design), Adam Matthew (Sound Design), Tori Moss (Production Stage Manager) and Miranda Shaffer (Assistant Stage Manager).
Produced by SoHo Playhouse (Artistic Director Darren Lee Cole, Managing Director Britt Lafield) and Beard Collins Shores Productions (Emerson Collins, Louise H. Beard and Del Shores).
SoHo Playhouse is located at 15 Vandam Street in New York City. Tickets are $45.50 (includes fees). Schedule varies – for exact days and times, to purchase tickets, and for more info go to https://www.sohoplayhouse.com.
Pictured Above: Show art for Wounded. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Jiggs Burgess was the inaugural winner of the 2022 Del Shores Foundation Writers Search for The Red Suitcase and in 2023, P3 Theatre Company produced the World Premiere. Jiggs was a finalist in the Eugene O’Neill play writing competition. Wounded won four awards at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe festival and the Overall Excellence Award at the International Fringe Encore Theater Series. Other works include The Girl In The White Pinafore, The Book of Dog and Anna Mae.
Del Shores is the writer/director/producer of the films Sordid Lives, Blues for Willadean, Southern Baptist Sissies, A Very Sordid Wedding and in TV, Sordid Lives: The Series. He wrote and executive produced MGM’s Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got The Will?). Shores has won multiple awards for his films and 11 plays, including a GLAAD Award, NAACP Award and LA Weekly Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded The Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award by LA’s’ The Celebration Theatre.
Emerson Collins Theatre: Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies (national tour, producer), Yellow (producer, LA Drama Critics Circle Best Production), This Side Of Crazy (producer, LA premiere), Six Characters in Search of a Play (director/producer, world premiere, national tour, film). TV: Drag Isn’t Dangerous telethon (executive producer), Sordid Lives: The Series (co- producer). Film: Blues For Willadean, Southern Baptist Sissies and A Very Sordid Wedding (producer), Shafted (co-director, five Best Director awards).
Shaw Jones (“Robert”) Regional Theatre: Assassins (“Lee Harvey Oswald” Lyric Hyperion Theatre), No Place To Be Somebody (WACO Theater) and Birdland Blue (Paul Robeson Theater). Film: Proximity, Blue. TV: Your Honor, Star Trek: Picard, The Upshaws, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Snowfall, Grace and Frankie, The Affair, 911, The Cool Kids, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, For All Mankind and a recurring player on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Kristen McCullough (“Katie”) LA Theatre: Yellow (world premiere, LA Drama Critics Best New Play, LA Weekly Award, Backstage Garland Award, Coast Playhouse), The Red Suitcase (world premiere, Broadwater Theatre). Regional: Yellow (regional premiere, Uptown Players). Film: Rockin’ Reverand and Del Shores’ Blues For Willadean.
Craig Taggart (“Carrol”) Los Angeles Theatre: Southern Baptist Sissies and Sordid Lives (Zephyr Theatre), Pageant (LA Premiere), The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical, Assassins (directorial debut, Hyperion Lyric Theatre). TV: LOGO’s Sordid Lives: The Series. Taggart co-created and starred in the parody sketch show Hollywood-uh, Could-uh, Should-uh! and the long-running Rise ‘n Shine with Bette & Juliette and numerous appearances on Dennis Hensley’s MisMatch Game.
Pictured Above: Director Del Shores & Playwright Jiggs Burgess. Photo Credit: Contributed.
BEARD COLLINS SHORES PRODUCTIONS Southern Baptist Sissies, a hybrid film/theatre adaptation, 15 film festival awards, 9 Audience Awards, limited release. A Very Sordid Wedding, film, opened number one at the specialty box office, in 45 markets, #1 LGBT DVD on Amazon for six straight weeks. Six Characters in Search of a Play, world premiere play and award-winning feature adaptation. LA premiere of This Side of Crazy, play, nominated for six LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards.
Continuing in the spirit of the theater’s original tenant, Edward Albee and his Playwright Unit Workshop, SoHo Playhouse is committed to presenting the brightest and most talented artists from New York, with its Lighthouse Series, and around the world, with the International Fringe Encore Series, to give the theater-going audience of New York important stories told with unique style and evolving what the concept off-Broadway Theater is in the 21st century. For info visit sohoplayhouse.com.
