Let’s Make an Album! at the Asian Arts Initiative, September 2025

Most recently Jaden was seen onstage in Let’s Make an Album!, an improvised immersive concert presentation featuring them and their band, Happier Than Ever, performed in the 2025 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Prior to this, Jaden’s play Delivery Boy was published by 1319 Press in April of 2025. In February 2025, they co-produced a staged reading of their play The Z.U.M with Em Hausmann and Permafrost Theatre Collective at Pearl Studios, NYC. The Z.U.M had its Philadelphia premiere with The Lemonade Stand in December 2025, it is currently set to be published with 1319 Press in early 2026. Their play, The Butterfly, premiered in June of 2025 through Rooted Theatre Companies “House of Rooted” Pride Festival, sponsored by Brooklyn Pride. It was then presented by OpenTheatre out of Kyiv, Ukraine in October 2025. In December 2025, Jaden was featured with the Strides Collective out of Philadelphia in their New Strides Play Festival with their play, How to Make Amends at the End of the World. Other projects written by Jaden include: Moving Out (JJ Theatre Productions), Hair-Dye Tutorial (Ben Vergas Short Stuff Festival), Violent Outbursts of the Restaurant Kind (Theatermania.com), and Tick Tick (Permafrost Theatre Collective).

As a director, Jaden works to stage relevant, contemporary works that tell the story of the here and now. They were the lead director for their piece Moving Out with JJ Theatre Productions in 2021, also acting as producer. In February 2025, they directed The Grown Ups by Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques through Temple University’s Side Stage company. They have also had the pleasure of working in Philadelphia in new work development, working on pieces such as The Sweet Hereafter (Daniel Mate, Kent Nicholson dir.), Sleepy Hollow Haunts (Matthew Bock), and a reimagining of Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck (Roz Cramer, dir.). They also worked on the season curation committee at the University of the Arts from 2023-2024, helping to craft their season of performances.

Jaden is currently earning their Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Temple University. They formerly studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, studying directing, playwriting, and production prior to its sudden closure in June of 2024.