J. Hughes; Actor on TV, Stage

Jackson Hughes, whose one-man show “Our Man in Nirvana” just last month completed a six-month run at Hollywood’s Theatre Theater, died Monday in Los Angeles of the complications of AIDS. He was 30.

In the stage show, the sometime TV actor portrayed a wildly outrageous German microbiologist who trance-channels a fashion designer, Polish-Jewish ballerina and other characters which he invented.

It featured wild monologues spoken by the salty personas he devised for himself and was widely praised when it opened last April.

Hughes studied drama with Stella Adler in New York before moving to Los Angeles, where he continued his studies with Kim Stanley.

He was seen in “Capitol” and other TV series.

Survivors include his mother, Evelyn H. Nehl, his father, C. B. Hughes, a sister and brother who ask contributions in his name to the AIDS Research Center at UCLA.