Jaymes Sanchez is a Texan playwright, actor, and educator living in Brooklyn. Jaymes's plays have been developed with The Lark, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Broadway Podcast Network/Rattlestick Theater, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Company One, Teatro Vivo, The Barn at Lee, Vanderbilt University, San Diego REP, and Artists' Theatre of Boston. He was an Inaugural Latinx Playwrights Circle Summer Fellow in 2023; The Summer Fellows then formed a collective called DIEZ, which received an Artist Grant from the The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) in 2024. Jaymes received the 2020 Keene Prize for Literature and the second place prize of Playing on Air's James Stevenson Award. Jaymes has been a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval as well as a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award. MFA: The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.