Recent & What’s Next
Play premiere – watch this space!
7.23
Stage Left Playwright Residency – Reading of work-in-progress Dopp Kite in the Uncanny Valley
July 21-23 & 28-30 Stage Left Theatre Chicago, IL
10.22
Out The Box Festival – Reading of work-in-progress Bump
October 29 Chicago Dramatists Chicago, IL
2.22
Development workshop – When Given a Choice, Bleed
Goodman Future Labs
February 21-26, ‘22 Goodman Theatre Chicago, IL
10.21
Associate Artist (poetry), remote residency with Bob Holman
Oct 10-20, ‘21 Atlantic Center for the Arts New Smyrna Beach, FL
4.21
Virtual Workshop – When Given a Choice, Bleed – Soul Series Lab Playwriting Micro-Development Session
April 21, ‘21 National Black Theatre New York, NY
10.20
Development workshop and reading – Last Will
Women’s Voices Mini-Festival
A play about the complicated and corrupting power dynamics in relationships that cross race and gender lines in 21st C America, through a seemingly simple, pure subject. At the center are a white male author in his 60s famous for writing children’s books celebrating black children, who is now dying and looking to appoint a head of his library and foundation. A Black female doctoral student is trying to convince him to give her that job.
October 23, ‘20 Mad Cow Theatre Orlando, FL
Fall Playwright-in-Residence
October 8-November 21, ‘20 Chicago State University Chicago, IL
9.20
Panelist (virtual), Lift Every Voice Indiana Playwrights Circle
September 13, ‘20 Indiana Writers Center Indianapolis, IN
8.20
STAGE Entanglement Work Sessions
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering – Arts, Sciences and Technology
August 2-14, ‘20 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
5.20
Virtual Workshop – When Given a Choice, Bleed – Solo Voices Festival
Four different Black women, four different eras, each facing a life-changing decision around blood. As their stories unfold, we come to realize that their lives are interconnected. More important, they share a similar fate: in their pursuit of self-determination, they must make peace with leaving something, or someone, behind.
Rivendell Theatre Chicago, IL
4.20
Panelist, workshop leader,
Marianne D. McComb Conference in Creative Writing
April 29, ‘21 Miami University of Ohio Oxford, OH
Poetry reading for RHINO/Graywolf Press digital release of Jane Kenyon collection
2.20
Performance – reading of Is You Is by L.C. Bernadine & Erik Olsen, Chicago Musical Theatre Festival
February 10, ‘20 Underscore Theatre Chicago, IL