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WRITER

Find me here on NPX. | All world premieres, workshops, and [staged] readings were directed by me (unless otherwise specified).

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 90-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.

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • Shortlist - Yale Drama Series Prize, judge: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (2025)

  • Finalist - Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (2024)

  • National Black Theatre Special Project (2024)

  • The Bushwick Starr Starr Reading Series (2023)

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BEING UP IN HERE AND ALL THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT DON'T CONCERN YOU OR WHEN YOU SEE A BUNCH OF BLACK PEOPLE RUNNING, WHAT DO YOU DO?

Best friends Aaliyah and Eli get magical sneakers and run On Their Way, as far as space and 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?

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • World Premiere at The Brick Theater x Exponential Festival (January 2024) // more here

  • Winner - The Princess Grace Playwriting Award (2023)

  • The Brick Aux, Staged Reading (2022)

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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, Developmental + Production History​

  • EST/Youngblood Reading (2025) // directed by Lamar Perry

  • Finalist - Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (2022)

  • Chautauqua Theater Company's New Play Workshop (2021) // directed by Lamar Perry

  • The Workshop Theater's Workshop Intensive (2020)

  • Semi-Finalist - Space on Ryder Farm's Creative Residency (2020)

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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, Developmental + Production History​

  • World Premiere at The Brick x The Exponential Festival (2022) // more here

  • The Orchard Project's Performance Lab (2021)

  • Finalist - Center at West Park's Spring Virtual Performance Residency (2021)

  • Playwrights Downtown, Workshop (2019)

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ROLLBACK

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?

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • Finalist - Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (2025)

  • Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writing Group, Staged Reading directed by Dominique Rider (2024)

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ST. NICHOLAS' ANNUAL
WALK-BIKE-SKATE-A-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?

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • New Dramatists/Princess Grace Workshop (2024)

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VÈTIJ, OR NO MADNESS

When Nile surprises her younger siblings Omar and Chris with a weekend getaway to see their favorite rapper, 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.

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • Finalist - The Bushwick Starr Starr Reading Series (2022)

  • Semi-Finalist - Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship (2024)

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 prequel to the generational death match that is Blue Fire Burns the Hottest. Can preparation ever be on point?

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • World Premiere @ Ars Nova's ANT Fest (2022) // more here

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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, Developmental + Production History​

  • Finalist - The Fire This Time Festival (2023)

  • World Premiere @ Brooklyn College Weasel Fest (2023) // directed by Talia Paulette Oliveras // more here

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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.

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • Playwrights Downtown, Production (2020) (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

  • Playwrights Downtown, Workshop (2018) // more here

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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.

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2020) // directed by Miranda Cornell + produced by Ryan Duncan-Ayala

  • Femfest Houston: Black Women's Voices (2020)

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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.

Honors, Developmental + Production History​

  • Moxie Arts Moxie Commission (2021) // Part 1: directed by Maragret Lee; Part 2: directed by Kathleen Capdesuñer; Part 3: directed by Leigh Rondon-Davis

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