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.
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The Wash is officially the recipient of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Up next, see it at Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre in NYC in June 6-29, 2025. Save the date for a co-production with Prop Thtr and Perceptions Theatre in Chicago in Oct. 31-Nov. 30, 2025. Here’s what the press has to say:
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. When I started writing this play I said I wanted it to feel like an episode of “Scandal.” A group of ICU nurses find themselves becoming the scapegoats when federal grant money goes missing at Morey Medical Center. Will they come together to free each other, or will they be swallowed by a system that’s looking for someone to blame? It’s a wild ride.
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.
Drama. 7M, 2M. Reverend Campbell McNeal is in a heated State Senate race. Meanwhile, his son/campaign manager Charles can’t wait for it all to be over, so he can get back to his girlfriend in New York. A couple of weeks before election day, the future president sends an ambitious group of men from the North to steer the campaign– and secure the passage of the 15th Amendment. However, a mysterious young woman may be the opponent no one ever saw coming. Inspired by events in the lives of the “Original 33” Black men elected to Georgia’s first state legislature, this new drama examines the real cost of the vote.
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 in South Georgia. It’s the week leading up to their wedding and they have cold feet. With the world at their fingertips, they must decide whether they still want each other on this side of freedom.
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