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When Leaves Sound Like Water
A WP Theater Commission
SYNOPSIS
A Sassy Black Best Friend, A Drag Queen with a Heart of Gold, A Wise Native American Woman, An Ancient Martial Arts Master, and A Magical Negro are eager to retire from the stories they've been written into just as their writer...finds herself falling victim to her own pen.
A poetic comedy
SYNOPSIS
A Sassy Black Best Friend, A Drag Queen with a Heart of Gold, A Wise Native American Woman, An Ancient Martial Arts Master, and A Magical Negro are eager to retire from the stories they've been written into just as their writer...finds herself falling victim to her own pen.
A poetic comedy
Kudzu Calling
2025 World Premiere - Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
SYNOPSIS
Commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as part of their New Southern Canon initiative, Kudzu Calling is a theatrical interweaving of poetry-rich scenes that seek to expand and complicate the Southern narrative. A celebration of Black Southern Love, Black Southern Queerness, Black Southern Playfulness, Culture, and Spirituality. It examines what it truly means to return home. At its core, it is Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ love letter to the place that made the Whiting Award-winning playwright.
SYNOPSIS
Commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as part of their New Southern Canon initiative, Kudzu Calling is a theatrical interweaving of poetry-rich scenes that seek to expand and complicate the Southern narrative. A celebration of Black Southern Love, Black Southern Queerness, Black Southern Playfulness, Culture, and Spirituality. It examines what it truly means to return home. At its core, it is Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ love letter to the place that made the Whiting Award-winning playwright.
Where We Stand
2020 Drama League Nominee - Distinguished Performance
2020 Lucille Lortel Nominee Outstanding Solo Show
2020 World Premiere WP Theater and Baltimore Centerstage
2019 New Harmony Spring Conference
2018 Prelude Festival
2018 Brooklyn College / Public Theater Research Residency
SOLO SHOW
Where We Stand was commissioned by The Public Theater's Mobile Unit. It is a first of its kind commission created to develop an original piece specifically geared toward the diverse audiences the Mobile Unit serves.
SYNOPSIS
Where We Stand is a long form poem with humor, heart, and music that tells the story of a man standing before his town asking them for forgiveness after he has made a deal with a mysterious stranger on their behalf. More than a recounting of events, this piece both engages and implicates the audience in determining the man’s fate.
2020 Lucille Lortel Nominee Outstanding Solo Show
2020 World Premiere WP Theater and Baltimore Centerstage
2019 New Harmony Spring Conference
2018 Prelude Festival
2018 Brooklyn College / Public Theater Research Residency
SOLO SHOW
Where We Stand was commissioned by The Public Theater's Mobile Unit. It is a first of its kind commission created to develop an original piece specifically geared toward the diverse audiences the Mobile Unit serves.
SYNOPSIS
Where We Stand is a long form poem with humor, heart, and music that tells the story of a man standing before his town asking them for forgiveness after he has made a deal with a mysterious stranger on their behalf. More than a recounting of events, this piece both engages and implicates the audience in determining the man’s fate.
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