Get to know me! Read this editorial for Grid Magazine about my experience as a young, Black playwright.

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UPCOMING COMMISSIONS & PROJECTS

• On Buried Ground (Christ Church Neighborhood House)​

• Ever in collaboration with Zachariah Julian (Azuka Theatre & Shakespeare in Clark Park with We are the Seeds)

• Antony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare in Clark Park)

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IN-DEVELOPMENT ​

• MASC. (formerly, Twenty-Six; Full-Length) - semifinalist for Shattered Globe's Global Playwright Series, Normal Ave.'s NAPSeries, and Live & in Color's June Bingham New Playwright Commission.

• The Playground (Full-Length)

• ​Rice & Em Fight a Lion (Full-Length) - On-going, world-building exercise exploring the intersections of (non-binary) gender and race in the digital age.

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COMPLETED​

• Finding Freedom: Deborah's Choice at The Museum of the American Revolution

• COMET (Solo-Performance) ​

• The Venus Problem (One-Act) - Staged-Reading at Primary Stages, Philadelphia Artists Collective, and Shoe Box Theatre Collective; finalist for Christ Church Neighborhood House Play Festival. 

• Everywhere (10-Minute; The 24 Hour Plays: Philadelphia)

• A Soft Landing (Elevate Theatre Company) - Did you know there’s music on the moon? Astronaut is a nurse, treating patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dad is one of them, trying to get better. Child is a poet, struggling to understand. All are alienated, pining for reconnection with the world. Tonight, will they land in a place where they can better care for themselves and each other? A Soft Landing is an intimate, grounded look at the public health issue plaguing the nation

• Germantown Plays Pericles (One-Act) - a community-contributed play about issues and dreams of Germantown, Philadelphia. 

• Every Everyman (One-Act) - a devised, socially-distant, live adaptation of Everyman with contemporary emphasis on Black liberation.

• Walk the Line (One-Act)-  Run. Don't walk. Who decides how we pursue our legacy? Who decides how we fight for liberation? Who draws the line? A hood-angel (Marissa Kennedy) Zoom-bombs Hudda's (Briyana D. Clarel) final moments. They are both in crisis. They argue over what it means to live and die in a world that'd rather you be erased. Hudda won't live to be erased. Click here to read audience reviews. Reading originally broadcast live to Facebook on September 17th, 2020. 

• Dandelion (One-Act; 154 Revisited with Revolution Shakespeare) - Adaptation of sonnets 46, 85, & 98. Isis (Adaeze Nwoko) and Nile (Satchel Willams) are in love and try very hard to keep that true. But distance, miscommunication, and fear marks disaster when you can't reach through a screen to hold a hand.

• The Medusa Play (Full-Length; Barrymore Recommended) - Who is the Black artist? Who is Medusa? ​Academic Premiere at Ursinus College in Spring of 2019  (Directed by Tamanya Garza) BARRYMORE RECOMMENDED World Premiere with Shoe Box Theatre Collective at Venice Island Performing Arts Center November 15th though 27th (Co-Directed by Ang Bey & Ryan Rebel). Click here to read my director/playwright's note.

• The White Feather Project (One-Act) - an ethnographic play concerning white fragility and cowardice. Devised from scholarly texts, primary sources, and in-person interviews, the community of Ursinus College is the vehicle and incubator for this piece. Click here to visit the project's website. Produced by Upstream Performance Collaborative. Performances took place on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 at Ursinus College as part of Celebration of Student Achievement (COSA) and Sunday, May 19th, 2019 as part of Shoebox Short Theatre Festival.​

• Little Dancer (One-Act) - A solo show about a toxic, Black/White interracial relationship

• Com[promising] Freedom (One- Act; produced at The National Constitution Center) -  "What will we do with all this freedom?"- Elizabeth Powell​ and her peers ask themselves this question in studying for their final history exam about The Declaration of Independence. Click here to read an article.

• Pedestals (Monologue) - ​​After assaulting a peer due to a racially charged incident, an African-American star student is confronted by her principal and her future. Click hereto watch a recording of Pedestals. Listen to the Philadelphia Young Playwright's podcast series "Mouthful" here!