I'm Falling In Love All The Time

I’M FALLING IN LOVE ALL THE TIME | WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY JACK SCHULTZ

Coffee. Romance. Heroin. There’s a first time for everything and a last. In his heartfelt solo show, Jack Schultz weaves together personal stories of the highs and lows of love.

In 2015 Jack lost his brother Andrew to a heroin overdose, broke up with his girlfriend, and developed an addiction to coffee. Experiencing all three at once helped him see parallel themes in love, loss, and addiction and he tied them together in one universally accessible story.

I’m Falling In Love All The Time was developed in Chicago through The Agency Theater Collective’s Basement Series. In 2018 The Agency produced a sold out late night run in partnership with Chicago’s first recovery high school Serenity Academy Chicago. With the mission to spark conversation about stigma surrounding addiction and the opioid crisis, Jack now travels all over to share his story with students, people in recovery, and families of those in recovery.

Production history includes:

  • Chicago School of Professional Psychology

  • Coalition Theater

  • Penn State University

  • Planet Ant Theatre

  • Greenhouse Theatre Center Breaking Ground Festival

  • McShin Foundation

  • University of Colorado Boulder

  • University of Wisconsin Madison

  • Virginia Commonwealth University


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“Jack’s performance was perfect for the Penn State Collegiate Recovery Community. We were able to make a community event out of it, and the students in my program loved the production. Schultz’s performance was first rate: humorous, yet loaded with vulnerability and emotional power. Weeks later we were still talking about some of the issues it raised.”

Jason Whitney, Penn State University Collegiate Recovery Coordinator

“Jack did a wonderful job with the play and is a perfect fit for programming with a collegiate recovery program.  Students in our program hung out with Jack for much of the day, and the play combined with a student panel was one of the most powerful events of the year.  Jack's show is incredibly powerful and touches on something that we do not talk about nearly enough in Collegiate Recovery, which is dealing with grief in recovery.  Our students have often lost so many friends to addiction which is a phenomenon that is more prevalent in our recovery students than just about any other in the population.”

Tom Bannard, Virginia Commonwealth University Collegiate Recovery Coordinator

“Jack’s captivating performance seamlessly interweaves the themes of love, loss, and addiction into an honest and moving narrative. The parallels drawn throughout are striking and bring the experience of addiction into a new light. I’m Falling In Love All The Time empathetically bridges several experiences into one very human reality. It is beautifully expressive and it stayed with me long after it was over.”

Reema, Student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

"Jack’s performance was profoundly moving. His creative use of the sound and smell of coffee being brewed, immediately drew me in. Jack’s emotive, humorous, and powerful performance allowed me to deeply connect with him, and his story of love, loss, and addiction. This show is a must-see!"

Claire Openshaw, MA, LPC, Ruth Cohen Institute for Mental Health Education Fellow