Rabbittown

Jaxen Lunsford was born in Troy, Alabama on February 2nd, 2002. The first signs of his interest in storytelling began as a child when he would write plays with his little sister to be performed in front of their parents. He wouldn't take the art of playwriting seriously until he decided to pursue theater at Charles Henderson High School, where his teacher would push him out of his comfort zone and encourage him to be more creative. He then went on to write two plays. The first was his fictional take on the Chicago mafia in the 1920s titled "The Unlawful." The second was a zombie apocalypse story that involved a group of survivors being trapped in an underground bunker, which was titled "Ten Feet Under". Both plays went on to place 1st at the Walter Trumbauer Festival, the festival in which the theater department would enter every year. He would also direct and act in a group performance of a bar scene taken straight from The Unlawful, a performance which would also earn him 1st place at the festival and make Jaxen discover his love for directing. During his senior year, he decided to participate in the production of his first short film, titled "Tick", as the writer and lead actor. The film was about a man who drunkenly kills his wife in a rage one night and is taken into custody by dirty cops, making for a story with no true hero to follow. This was the experience that made him discover that screenwriting was his ultimate passion along with directing. The film earned a superior medal at the Alabama Thespians Festival held in Birmingham, Alabama.