Wayne Lemon

His darkly comic work Jesus Hates Me was chosen as the inaugural production of the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit.

There's a compassionate point beneath its quirky corrosion.--Los Angeles Times Lemon is a keen observer of human flaws and frailties, skillfully merging dozens of minute details to form a seriocomic mosaic.

From a distance, it's sickly-sad.--Orange County Register Through their failures and foibles, Lemon makes them wretched and pitiable — and endlessly, helplessly funny.

Lemon squeezes all the juice out of his characters and their sorrowful-if-they-weren’t-side-splitting lives.-- Times of San Diego Though Jesus Hates Me does have its occasional sweet moments, it's the acidic ones that make it such a treat.--StageSceneLA Jesus Hates Me questions faith by confronting social taboos, everything from racism to blasphemy, fraud to adultery, suicide to incest — all through a lens of dark humor.--San Diego Reader "Jesus Hates Me" can best be described as Jean Paul Satre's "No Exit" hopped up on booze, drugs, sex and a plate of Texas BBQ.--Broadway World An exquisite comedy, featuring black lines of intriguing thought, with some of the funniest dialogue ever heard.

Lemon has done an amazing piece of work.--Back Stage Jesus Hates Me is a character study, a comedy, a dramatic statement, a fleeting discourse on religion, an exploration of belief, a brief treatise on predestination versus self-determination and a whole lot of fun.