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flag Playwright Jordan Ramirez Puckett's debut play "A Driving Beat" premieres Nov. 1, 2025, at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, telling a cross-country journey exploring identity and race through beatboxing and spoken word.

flag Playwright Jordan Ramirez Puckett, a Bay Area native and Juilliard graduate, debuts their new play “A Driving Beat” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley on November 1, 2025. flag The story follows a white adoptive mother and her brown son on a cross-country road trip from Ohio to San Diego in search of the boy’s birth mother, with actor Livia Gomes Demarchi portraying all characters. flag Blending beatboxing and spoken-word poetry, the play explores identity, race, and family, inspired by Puckett’s own travels and rooted in the cultural diversity of the Bay Area. flag Directed by Jeffrey Lo and featuring music by Carlos Aguirre, the production originated in TheatreWorks’ 2024 New Works Festival and was previously staged at Flint Repertory Theatre.

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