The End of Jack Cruz

What if you had to spend the end of the world with a psychopath?

After a virus takes out most of the population, recovering addict Jack "Colonel" Jones survives this new plague by relapsing. Only the hard drugs he's been avoiding can save him. On a trip to a hospital for supplies, he meets up with the brilliant and hulking Jack Cruz. Cruz has set himself up in a fully stocked warehouse where he plans to find a cure for the virus and he'd like Colonel to be his right-hand man.

As their lonely time together creeps along from one fix to the next, Colonel begins to suspect Cruz is more interested in death than life, and when Macy, a guest to the warehouse, comes to a strange end, Colonel believes that his roommate is even more monstrous than the virus.

When a new visitor, Gwen Landers, comes into their lives, Colonel must decide if his suspicions are right and just how he and Gwen can escape Jack Cruz's grip on them.

Adapted from the novel by A.A. Garrison, The End of Jack Cruz is an intense story of paranoia and survival where the end of the world isn't the worst thing that can happen to you, Jack Cruz is.

David L. Williams is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the theatre department of Cornell University, where he was a four time award winner in the Heerman’s-McCalmon Playwriting contest. Since then, he has written more than twenty-five plays and musicals in a variety of genres. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and has won the HotCity Theatre GreenHouse New Play Festival for The Winners, the Riverside Stage Company’s Founder’s Award for Ampersand, and the League of Cincinnati Theatre’s best production in the YES Festival award for Spake. His work has been produced across the United States and internationally, including the award-winning The Starving and The Wolf Manhood, along with four selections for the New York International Fringe Festival. He lives in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania with his wonderful wife Kathleen.