Writing is my first love and theater is a close second. I’ve spent more weekends than I can count sharing stories in the dark with strangers. My vision is for the stories that come through me to invoke empathy, ignite curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and open the hearts of people around the world.
Imagining a vibrant future for Black people and other people of color is central to my work, because our best days are before us. Read my full artist statement. Look under the title of each play for upcoming readings and productions.
Other Paths to God will have its world premiere at Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, GA, opening October 9, 2026.
Drama. 4W, 3M. During the Great Migration millions of Black Americans moved from the South to the North in search of safety and opportunity. It’s 1935 and a pregnant Mae Monarch is starting a new life with her family in Chicago. However, when she reunites with her husband John after six months apart, she finds that life in the North is not as they thought it would be. As they struggle to navigate new terrain, unforeseen events strain their relationship and their pocketbooks. Will they be able to hold steadfast to their dreams and each other, or will the harsh realities of a changing nation get the best of them?
Mystery/Dark Comedy. 4W 1NB. For this group of ICU nurses at a public Atlanta hospital, their craziest day at work is about to get even crazier. Renee’s just returned from leave under secretive circumstances, Coleen’s a breath away from divorce, Rel wants a baby, Kai’s digging herself out of wedding debt after being left at the altar, and supervisor Amy’s caught up in a mystery over missing money. This wild ride through the lives of five resilient women in healthcare is funny, poignant, and just the right amount of scandalous, while revealing that the path to healing and redemption is never a straight line.
This play was commissioned as a part of the New Georgia Woman Project: Black Women Speak initiative, sponsored by Horizon Theatre Company and the National New Play Network. The program aims to develop new plays by nine Black women playwrights in the South.
THE RECONSTRUCTION TRILOGY
The Reconstruction Trilogy consists of three plays set in post-Civil War Georgia. The plays explore the three areas that freed Black people nurtured in order to establish community after Emancipation: the family, popular sovereignty and economic mobility.
The Wash concluded its National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere in 2025. Here’s what the press had to say:
Drama. 7M, 2W. Reverend Charles McCall is in the fight of his life– both with his son, C.J. over almost everything– and for a seat in Georgia’s new state senate. To complicate matters, a femme fatale hired by the opposition is out to ruin him and his marriage. With his son not speaking to him at home, and political opponents conspiring against him in the streets, will Charles be able to bring home a victory for the sharecroppers in Coastal Georgia who are depending on him? Or, will the New South succumb to its old ways? “The Vote” is a play about the two things we hold dear: family and democracy. This play is loosely inspired by events in the lives of the “Original 33” African American men elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1868.
Romantic Comedy. 2M, 2W. What does it mean to love someone without bondage and obligation? After the Civil War, Flex and CeCe settled in a community of free Black people just outside of Macon, Georgia. It’s the week leading up to their wedding and they each have cold feet for different reasons. With the world at their fingertips, they must decide whether they still want each other on this side of freedom.
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