John McDonnell Tierney, aka “Jack McT,” is lyricist and book writer of The Humanity’s Child Musicals, a four part saga that follows the development of a single character, “Humanity’s Child,” from adolescence to adulthood. The first in the quartet, titled “Humanity’s Child: The Dream,” premiered Hartford, CT in 2016 to standing ovations. The second, titled “Humanity’s Child: A Musical for Today,” premiered at the 2019 New York Theater Festival where it was nominated for best musical and best direction, and then ran for four weeks at the Players Theater Off-Broadway, August-September, 2019. The third musical in the series, titled “Humanity’s Child: More Than a Musical,” premiered as an “Audio-Musical” in May 2020 and was featured on the prestigious Atlanta Audio Fringe Festival through May 2021. The fourth musical in the series, titled; “Extraordinary Hero,” premiered on-line for “Virtual Theater” and played to over 250 people in February 2022 and was streamed on the Rogue Theatre Festival June 30-July 3, 2022 to over 1200 screens nationwide.  Jack's first non-musical titled "Keepers of the Secret" is currently in development. It was written as part of Dramatist’s Guild project where an international group of playwrights were challenged to write a new play in thirty days, April 1 – 30, 2022. Jack was one of many who accepted the challenge and, in fact, completed a producible draft within the 30 days. The play was subsequently selected by the Guild for a professional table-read on May 13, 2022 and had a professional “Virtual Staged-Reading” complete with costumes, props, incidental music, sfx, and scenery on July 6, 2022.  Jack’s most recent works are a series of three “Ten-Minute Plays” and a related one-act titled “The Evolution of BillyBob Goodfellow.”