Jeff Barker Plays

Jeff Barker Plays
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Jeff Barker

Jeff Barker was raised in Mendota, Illinois. He wrote and produced his first play while in undergraduate school at Greenville College. He went on to earn an M.A. at Northern Illinois University and an M.F.A. at University of South Dakota. While in graduate school, he studied playwriting under Dr. S. Alan Chesler and Dr. Kenn Robbins. Since 1988, he and his wife Karen have held professorships in acting and directing at Northwestern College, where Mr. Barker is also playwright in residence. He has over thirty produced plays to his credit, including Kin, which won the Iowa Playwright's Competition in 2002. September Bears, his 9/11-based play appeared off-Broadway in 2003. Jeff and Karen have three children and make their home in Orange City, Iowa.

Ancient Hebrew Drama Scripts

Terror Texts
hair-raising tales from ancient Israel
kin Full-Length Musical
6 men, 6 women (with doubling)
Most parts are gender neutral

“Terror Texts” is a new musical containing six of the most vile, gory, and disturbing ancient Israelite stories verbatim from the Bible. The idea was conceived by Northwestern College Professor Jeff Barker with industrial rock songs by Minneapolis composer Joseph Barker and choral music by Heather Josselyn-Cranson.

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And God Said
a collection of ten ancient Hebrew Dramas
with music by Ron Melrose

This full-length musical is for an ensemble cast of 6 males, 6 females and 1 boy. The text is taken verbatim from the Bible.

“And God Said is far more amazing, inspiring, challenging, profound…than I ever could have imagined.”
- Nancy Franken