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LETICHE AND THE [WONDROUS] PURSUIT OF ELVIS NAMED A FINALIST FOR

2024 O'NEILL NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE 

I'm happy to announce that Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis is a finalist for the 2024 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. I'm honored to be in such great company of the amazing finalists. View the complete list of finalists here.

SELECTED FOR ROUNDABOUT'S DIRECTORS GROUP (COHORT 6)

I'm happy to share that I was selected for Roundabout's Directors Group (Cohort 6). RDG was created to offer resources and provide career assistance to the next generation of directors for the American Theatre... RDG creates an RDG creates an artistic community for directors at similar stages of their work, fostering camaraderie, lateral mentorship, access to expanded professional networks, and insight into the workings of a large not-for-profit institution.

MORTAL COMBAT SELECTED FOR LUCILLE LORTEL'S 2024-2025 ALCOVE COMMISSION 

I'm happy to share that I was selected to be in Lucille Lortel's Alcove Commission (Year 3). For this commission, selected playwrights are asked to think and reflect on the current climate crisis and to imagine possible futures. | In Mortal Combat, it’s Counselor Training Week, and a sleepaway camp is swarmed with 20somethings ready to make their summer coin. One cabin of trainees finds themselves to be quick besties in the midst of team-building exercises’ forced kumbaya. But once their training ventures out of the safety net of the pristine, state-of-the-art man-made grounds into the real wilderness of the rugged and hostile Mortal Combat [with Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!], their faux niceties are nowhere to be found and beasts are unleashed.

CAPTAIN HEAVEN AMERICA @ CONCH SHELL'S BLUELIGHT READING SERIES

by Petron B. + directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

July 25th, 2024 @ 7:00pm | Flushing Town Hall | donation-based tickets here

In Petron B.'s Captain Heaven America & the Evil Foreign Hell Demon, Evil Foreign Hell Demons are lurking under the Foreign Boy’s bed as he dreams of rescuing his father from Hell. Will Captain Heaven America show up in time to save the day?

CO-RESIDENT DRAMATURG AT CONCH SHELL PRODUCTIONS

This March 2024, I've joined Conch Shell Productions as their Co-Resident Dramaturg for their 2024-2025 season! Conch continues to be an incredibly special organization to me, centering and uplifting Caribbean writers' voices. 

RECENT

RECIPIENT OF THE 2023 PRINCESS GRACE PLAYWRITING AWARD

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm the recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Playwriting Award! As part of this award and fellowship, I'll embark on a year-long residency with New Dramatists developing new work.

ROLLBACK @ CLUBBED THUMB'S SUMMERWORKS ECWG READING SERIES

by Marissa Joyce Stamps + directed by Dominique Rider

Tuesday, June 25th @ 3pm | The Wild Project | free rsvp + info here

Rollback (a new play of mine developed during my time in Clubbed Thumb's 2023-2024 Early Career Writers Group) will have a staged reading directed by Dominique Rider as part of Clubbed Thumb's annual Summerworks ECWG Reading Series. // After reports of a flying man shut down coveted coaster The Demolisher 3000, attendees on the ride’s 3-hour wait leave the queue. Keisha and her friends, on the other hand, stay put and wait it out until it’s back up and running. But, does thrill rely on potential or on kinetic energy?

WALK-BIKE-SKATE @ NEW DRAMATISTS/PRINCESS GRACE

St. Nicholas' Walk-Bike-Skate-a-Thon will receive a private reading this June 2024 to conclude New Dramatists Residency with the Princess Grace Foundation. 

RUN AGAINST THE WIND: BLACK WOMEN FOR A LIBERATED PALESTINE

curated/written by Taji Senior + directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Friday, May 31st @ 7pm | JACK | donation-based tickets + info here

This reading features curated text from Ethel Minor, June Jordan, Ntozake Shange, and Aja Monet in conversation with one another. The selected work speaks on the history of Palestinian liberation efforts and its impact on Black radical movements here in the United States since the 1960s. This reading is meant to generate money to buy e-sims to keep our Palestinian comrades in communication with the world and provide as much aid and relief to the Palestinian people as possible.

 LETICHE AND THE [WONDROUS] PURSUIT OF ELVIS 29-HOUR WORKSHOP @ NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE + KEEP SOUL ALIVE

In late April, I directed a private, 29-hour workshop and reading of my play, Letiche and The [Wondrous] Pursuit of Elvis through National Black Theatre's Special Projects. This workshop featured Raven Jeannette, Heather Alicia Simms, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Lizan Mitchell, Sean Boyce Johnson, Judson Jones, and Mandesia Sibiya with Stage Management by Shadie Thompson. | I was also named a Finalist for The National Black Theatre's 2023 I AM SOUL Playwriting Residency and am a member of the Keep Soul Alive 2023-2024 Cohort! With this honor, I collaborated with Lamar Perry, who directed a micro-development session of my play, 

You Can Tell From the Twisted Juniper.

PLAYWRIGHT MENTOR FOR 24 HOUR PLAYS: NEW VICTORY

Saturday, May 4th @ 7:30pm | The Wild Project | free rsvp + info here

I'm so happy to be mentoring the next generation of theatremakers in this very special collaboration between 24 Hour Plays and New Victory! 

It’s a star-studded race to showtime as seven young playwrights collaborate with professional actors and directors to stage their own original works live at the New Victory Theater—all on 24 hours’ notice! For one night only, experience the passions and perspectives of some of New York City’s brightest young creatives in a showcase of short plays conceived, written and rehearsed over a single day and night. There’s no rest for the revolutionary!

THE ARCHIVE: NEW WORKS BY BLACK WOMEN

February 16 + 17, 2024 @ 7:30pm | The Flea | tickets here

Led by Creator and Artistic Producer Jordan Powell, The Archive: New Works by Black Women is a stage reading showcasing Black female women and femme playwrights and directors. The plays will tell the stories of these women and serve as the act of archiving them as we store them in our collective memory. The playwrights will meet with each other over the course of January and a quick rehearsal process with a director and actors.

BEING UP IN HERE AND ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES

THAT DON'T CONCERN YOU OR WHEN YOU SEE

A BUNCHA BLACK PEOPLE RUNNING, WHAT DO YOU DO?

@ THE BRICK X EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL 2024

January 5-7 and 10-13, 2024 | The Brick Theater | tickets here

"We runnin cross country.”
Best friends Aaliyah and Eli get magical running sneakers and trek On Their Way, as far as space as near as Brownsville's GnM bodega, to reach The Final Destination where they're to meet Mama She. But, what happens when they make the unfa
miliar familiar and run off course?

WHISPER ECONOMY OF BLACK MARKET THOUGHT

@ MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT THE JUDSON

written, directed, and choreographed by Barnett Cohen

January 22, 2024 @ 7pm | The Judson Memorial Church | free + more info here

I'm breaking my onstage hiatus and am a performing in Barnett Cohen's newest piece, whisper economy of black market thought, at The Judson.

MEMBER OF ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE'S YOUNGBLOOD

As of Fall 2023, I am a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood's newest class of writers!  My first year will end with readings of new work from the new class.

MEMBER OF CLUBBED THUMB'S 2023-2024

EARLY CAREER WRITERS GROUP

In Fall 2023, I was selected to join Clubbed Thumb's 2023-2024 Early Career Writers Group! Along with 8 other phenomenal writers, we meet weekly to share new plays we've been working on. In June, our work will commence with readings during Clubbed Thumb's SummerWorks.

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