12+ characters / meant for ensemble
90 minutes
A young scholar enters his dissertation defense with a dangerous claim: the African Diaspora carries a radical spiritual power capable of protection, resistance, and world-making.
As his thesis unfolds, the room breaks open — carrying us from the Bight of Bonny to the auction block, from Selma to Carter G. Woodson, from ancestral memory to a Harlem classroom where the spirits of children swell the room. Part church play, part academic defense, Awoken asks what history looks like when the dead, the living, and the unborn all testify.
14 characters [non-gender specific] approximately 80 mins
a children's play
In Lilyvine, the uptight, inhospitable Goodies and the artistic, misunderstood Hoodies battle for territory and resources in this hip-hop tale of scarcity and immigration.
5 women & 3 men
approximately 75 mins
a children's play
Written for the Youth of the Hudson Guild Community Center, Lockdown, is an urban response to The Breakfast Club. A group of teenagers become unruly after being locked in the Chelsea Recreational Center for 108 hours 45 minutes 13 seconds 14 seconds and 15 seconds, 16 seconds, 17 seconds...
As hours become days, the way the teenagers behave morphs and their true colors are shown.