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Untitled
A work in progress about the belief that, with the exception of our heads, women are completely hairless. And the expensive, painful mandate that if we aren't, we make ourselves so. |
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Fireflies
(A Children's Play. For Adults.) It’s twilight time. And the small, winged things-- like lovebugs and roaches and fireflies-- have begun to stir and search for light. Will Then-Self find hers before she dies? Or will Now-Self find other ways to survive? Consisting of twelve vignettes, Fireflies uses narration, movement, and music to tell a story about longing and the search for intimacy through the lives of insects.
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Strong Face, or Misogynoir
a satire Maybe it's her "energy." Maybe it's her hair. Or maybe it's just her skin. Whatever it is, no one in Follywood seems to be able to see that actress Bentley Jones is a woman. Not even her hip-pop star girlfriend Yoni Baker. Or her man-in-a-dress rival Whip Williams. But when Bentley learns that major studio 19th Century Cocks has green lit a slavery-themed biopic guaranteed to earn its female star an impOSTOR nomination, she has to decide if she’s ready for her real close up. |
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Before Evening Comes
With his 13th birthday around the corner, Totome is excited to meet “the butcher” and finally become a man. His mother, however, hopes to keep him whole for just a little while longer. Set in a dystopian future, Before Evening Comes explores what becomes of black boys, men, and women in an America rooted in the founding myths that the black male body is either a commodity or a threat. |
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The Defiance of Dandelions
a choreopoem in progress about the policing of black femininity Do not speak too loudly or too little or too much. Do not get out of the place you’ve been assigned. Do not give birth to a meadow of dandelions. For as long as they can remember, The Strongness, The Queerness, The Boisterousness, The Brazenness, The Thickness, and The Softness have been trapped in the In-School Shading Room. While they wait for a release that seems like it may never come, a bouquet is born and they begin to remember the selves and the world that they forgot. |
Select Short Plays
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Brandon. Brumley. Bro. A black female college student at a PWI seeks peace of mind by trying to take on the identity of a frat bro. |
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Color ED Miss Snow wants to reach her goal of having 100% of students on task bubbling in circles, but Jade insists on coloring... with colors. Dis Da Hood Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, two native New Orleanians prepare to protect their homes from a new force of nature: white millenials from the East Coast. Freeways Ain't Free Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, William Levitt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower await trial in purgatory after their admissions to heaven have been revoked. Their crime? Causing the impending extinction of the human race. How Are You Called? Girl wants to communicate with her ancestor, but she doesn't even know her name. Mama Moon Mama Moon's descendants aren't being protected by her light. The Settlement Isaac and Rebecca are new homeowners who find their domestic bliss permanently disrupted by the late night arrival of Shirley. Shirley claims the land on which the couple's home has been built belonged to her ancestors and is rightfully hers. Sitting Under a Silk-Cotton Tree Force-fed self-hatred by her mother, a girl called Roach tries to navigate her way to self-love. |
