JaxbyJax VIII is thrilled to announce a “first” for the literary arts festival –
a dramatic reading of Featured Playwright Tim Gilmore’s “Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows” in the Grand Foyer at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center, directed by Barbara Colaciello. The play will start promptly at 7 p.m. and run until 8 p.m., followed by Q&A with the author, director, and cast until 8:30.
He will also read from Murder Capital: 8 Stories, 1890s-1980s on Saturday, October 16th.
Tim Gilmore writes about the haunted South.
Gilmore is the author of 20 books, including Murder Capital: 8 Stories, 1890s-1980s, Channeling Anna Fletcher, Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows, Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher, The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard, The Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, In Search of Eartha White: Storehouse for the People, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, and Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic.
Gilmore has also written several works for the stage. In the spring of 2017, Gilmore adapted Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic as a play, which FSCJ (Florida State College at Jacksonville) DramaWorks’ Ken McCulough directed at the school’s Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts. In April 2019, DramaWorks produced Gilmore’s Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows, about the 1990 GMAC Mass Shooting in Jacksonville. In March 2021, Gilmore’s “Covid Monologues” were enacted on stage as part of FSCJ’s A World Distanced, an original live performance of songs, monologues and dance.
Gilmore is the founder of JaxbyJax, a literary arts festival built on the theme of “Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville.” He’s the writer and creator of www.jaxpsychogeo.com, a project that explores place and catalogues the Southern Gothic, telling nearly 600 stories of strange and historic locations in and around Jacksonville, Florida. Better than probably any other news piece, Anne Schindler’s “Pretty Dark” tells the story of JaxPsychoGeo for First Coast News.
Photo by Bob Self.