A little bit about Myself:)
Hello! My name is Jaxson Mackling, I own my own theatre in Wichita Falls, Texas, called The Cole Theatre; Here is a little about myself. At the age of nine in the small town of Decatur IL, with a program called ‘Decatur Park District PERFORM‘. https://www.decatur-parks.org/thearts/perform.
PERFORM!
2020 Perform! – Children Of Eden
Children of Eden was originally written in 1989 as Family Tree for a production by Youth Sing Praise. Award winning Stephen Schwartz 
adapted the script and music of Family Tree into a full-length musical, giving it the title it uses today. Children of Eden is a two-act musical based on the Book of Genesis, with Act I telling the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, an Abel, while Act II deals with Noah and the Flood. Here is a video of the backstory of the production.
Directing for Theatre
After a few more years of performing with ‘The Park District’ and a few other Theatre Companies, I started to figure out that Performing wasn’t for me and I wanted to do a more executive position in theatre, so I took on a assistant directing position for a small theatre in Decatur IL where I lived, called ‘Theatre7: Decatur’s Community Theatre.’ My first show with Theatre 7 was Mugsy Sent Me; a interactive improv murder mystery dinner theatre, set in a speakeasy at the end of the Prohibition era. If you want a little more information about the MUGSY SENT ME, click here
Recently I’ve dabbed into directing with Theatre 7 and I loved it. The first show I directed with T7 was Plight Before Christmas, a melodrama (a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.) based upon Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol meets the Old Wild West.
Playwriting
Besides directing, I’m also a Playwright and I love murder mysteries! Some of my most recent scripts that I’ve wrote, have been ‘Murder In the Stacks’, ‘Unlikely Pairing’, and ‘Murder by One’. My most recent one though has been ‘Ticking of Time’; it’s a 2 act murder mystery that takes place in Galloway Scotland, in the 1800’s. Some of the other theatre related things that I do involve, set design. I designed the set for ‘Murder In the Stacks’ using Layout in SketchUp.
That is all I got for today. Thank you for reading, and another post will be up in a few days, talking more about the theatre in Texas.
– Jaxson Mackling 🙂
The Cole Theatre 