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My Creations

A snippet of my artistic life. For more information on either my plays, collage, screenwriting or acting lives please join my mailing list on my contact page! 

Gunshot Medley 
One Act Play 

The souls of three slaves are stuck in a state of limbo, perpetually tasked with cleaning the wreckage caused by systemic racism purveying contemporary America. The trio must confront the expendability of African American lives through the ages: Antebellum South, the Civil Right's Movement, #BlackLives Matter. 

Reprise Production at Rogue Machine/LA (2019)

Production at Rogue Machine/LA (2018)

Production at Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK (2017)

Staged Reading at Hi-Arts/NYC (2016)

Workshop Production at California Institute of the Arts (2016)

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Smile, Goddamnit, Smile 
Full Length Play 

African and American’s worlds are turned upside down when they receive a letter in the mail from their Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben. The letter beckons the two to visit Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben before they “go die”. African and American’s views on their aunt and uncle bring up deep seated trauma, pain and contention between them. It becomes clear the journey to see Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben on their deathbeds won’t happen without an epic fight.

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Rain, River, Ocean 
Full Length Play 

Rain, River, Ocean is about a Black girl's journey in her grandmother’s home…unearthing stories of past, present, and future ancestors. Currently in Development.

Workshopped at CalArts Center for New Performance

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Father, Father 
Full Length Play

Father is throwing a drag cabaret in the afterlife and everyone is invited including his own son that he murdered years ago. Loosely inspired by the life of Marvin Gay Senior, Father, Father delves into Black masculinity, queerness, and fatherhood in a funny yet brutal play.

In development with the Antaeus Theatre Company's NEXT Comission

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