WRITER
Find me here on NPX. | All world premieres, workshops, and [staged] readings were directed by me, unless otherwise specified.
YOU CAN TELL FROM THE TWISTED JUNIPER
Joelli and Darrell's San Diego vacation is detoured because of intense monsoons and they get trapped in the middle of Sedona, AZ. Amongst vortexes, strangers, and strange beings, Joelli finds herself on a desert quest that makes her question what's right in front of her.
Honors and Development + Production History
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Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist (2022)
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Chautauqua Theater Company's New Play Workshop (2021) // directed by Lamar Perry
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The Workshop Theater's Workshop Intensive (2020)
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Semi-Finalist for Space on Ryder Farm's Creative Residency (2020)
LETICHE
AND THE [WONDROUS] PURSUIT OF ELVIS
New York City mother-daughter duo, Imara and Kal, are on a swamp tour on their New Orleans vacation. They find themselves led by a white captain on an all-Black boat of tourists. What are the odds?! In the murkiness of their 75-minute tour, Kal finds herself itching and her psyche morphing in a place full of contradictions and turns to the alligators and their leader—the mighty alligator, Elvis—for some clarity.
Development + Production History
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The Bushwick Starr Starr Reading Series (2023)
BLUE FIRE BURNS THE HOTTEST
“They be ghosts up in this bitch…”
The mortal fear must be running high in the veins... Two men—two rivals—who, after holding out for years, finally come to a now abandoned boxing ring that their fathers, and their fathers' fathers, and so on and so forth fought in to fight for their lives and to claim themselves as the "greatest." In the midst of jabs and hooks, and crosses and uppercuts, they both find themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, figuring out who they are in relation to higher power.
Honors and Development + Production History
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World Premiere at The Brick x The Exponential Festival (2022) // more here
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The Orchard Project's Performance Lab (2021)
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Finalist for Center at West Park's Spring Virtual Performance Residency (2021)
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Playwrights Downtown, Workshop (2019)
IF YOU SEE A BUNCH OF BLACK PEOPLE RUNNING,
WHAT DO YOU DO?
FORMERLY TITLED: BEING UP IN HERE AND ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT DON'T CONCERN YOU
Best friends Aaliyah and Eli get magical shoes and run 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 unfamiliar familiar and run off course?
Development + Production History
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The Brick Aux, Staged Reading (2022)
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Upcoming World Premiere TBA (2024)
ST. NICHOLAS' ANNUAL
WALK-BIKE-SKATE-THON
Three, ragtag packs of kids from Far Roc in Kindergarten, 5th grade, and 8th grade get their scooters, and bikes and sneakers and helmets and elbow pads and knee pads ready for the school- year's coveted event—The Annual Walk-Bike-Skate-a-Thon. But, how can these poor lil kids stay safe from stranger danger (of all kinds) as they grow in shifting parameters and obstacle courses?
VÈTIJ, OR NO MADNESS
When Nile surprises her younger siblings Omar and Chris with a weekend getaway to see Kendrick Lamar, plans change when daddy's rich kids Quincy, Leah, Adrian, and Hattie invite them into their daddy's hotel's penthouse suite during an intruder lockdown. Between hangovers, and getting high, and taking bubble baths, and watching the sunrise, Nile tries her best to keep her siblinghood held together as best she can.
DEADBODYDEADBODYDEADBODY
There’s Johnson #1’s feast at 2pm and Johnson #2’s daily prayer at 7am. There’s Johnson #1’s hour-long vomit and there’s Johnson #2’s hour-long jog. There’s Johnson #1’s 5 hours of restless sleep and there’s Johnson #2’s 3 hours of contaminated brainspace. deadbodydeadbodydeadbody is an invitation to voyeur into two unbeknownst rivals as they see sunrise and sunset… and sunrise and sunset… and sunrise and sunset… deadbodydeadbodydeadbody is the 72 hours before the start of the boxing match of the century, the generational death match, that is Stamps’ Blue Fire Burns the Hottest. Can preparation ever be on point?
CHAR
Celina plans a cookout in her new neighborhood of St. Albans and everyone and their mom is invited. She's making beef burgers. Turkey burgers. Beyond burgers. Salmon burgers. Portobello mushroom burgers. Black bean burgers-you name it. But, what happens when her grill starts to send smoke signals throughout the neighborhood and summons an unlikely neighbor?
Honors, Development + Production History
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The Fire This Time Festival Finalist (2023)
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Brooklyn College Weasel Fest (2023) // directed by Talia Paulette Oliveras // more here
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
A very pregnant mother as she drifts off to sleep. She enters a dreamspace of everything she wants and more for her son, Max. Until it no longer is. Where the Wild Things Are revisits Maurice Sendak's classic children's book of the same name and thrusts it into conversation with Black motherhood, Black adolescence, and consumption of one's culture without the consequences of owning their identity.
Development + Production History
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Playwrights Downtown, Production (2020) (Cancelled due to Covid-19)
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Playwrights Downtown, Workshop (2018) // more here
THE WATER RUMBLES IN LIMBO TIME
It's Girls' Night... In!... virtually! Best friends Peri and Asher hestiantly agree to a video call with Alex and Erin, who want updates on everyone's global pandemic goals. But, when Peri suggests she's been sitting in stillness, it is suddenly disrupted. This is a play about what happens when we glitch internally and the process of accepting it.
Development + Production History
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24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2020) // directed by Miranda Cornell + produced by Ryan Duncan-Ayala
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Femfest Houston: Black Women's Voices (2020)
TECHNO PAPER PLANES
Thousands of miles apart, Kaimani, a teen in the foster care system and Anita, a dying cancer patient, participate in a virtual Adopt-A-Grandparent program. Through learning and unlearning each other in the midst of searching for a sense of belonging, they journey towards building an unlikely friendship that tests their generational gap.
Development + Production History
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Moxie Arts Moxie Commission (2021) // Part 1: directed by Maragret Lee; Part 2: directed by Kathleen Capdesuñer; Part 3: directed by Leigh Rondon-Davis
PINE-SOL & PARFUM
After a night of partying for Marie's 21st birthday, Toni has to save her dear Marie's behind before her Haitian parents come for it. | watch it here
Development + Production History
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The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals 2021, Viral Monologues - Round 31 // directed by Des'ree Brown
GREENLAND AIR
Renelle is wrapped up in getting her Secret Santa's gift ready. In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, she has a conversation with herself about gift giving and air, and giving new breath. | watch it here
Development + Production History
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The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues - Round 22 (2020) // featuring Lyric Ross
FLANM DIFE
OR THERE'S NO NIMBOSTRATUS TODAY
In the middle of a rain shower, Quin comes to their usual spot to draw and have a conversation with a loved one. But something pressing's been on their mind lately... | watch it here
Development + Production History
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The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2020), Viral Monologues - Round 17 // featuring Malik Childs