Works In Development
Interlopers
Today should only be about one thing: Gwendolyn Tarver’s homegoing. But at 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday at Seventh Baptist Church, the Tarver family’s attention is fractured once her will is read. Something that her daughter Cassandra assumed would be quick and simple is primed to shake the foundations of this family. Interlopers is a play about legacies, grief, belonging, and how we become who we are—especially as mothers and daughters.
finalist, Fault Line Theatre Irons in the Fire (2024)
semifinalist, O’Neil National Playwrights Conference (2023)
reading, Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group (2022)
development, American Theatre Group PlayLab (2022)
The Alligator
After his recent mental breakdown, 15-year-old Bradley just wants life to return to normal. But when a haunting figure wearing a dapper suit made of alligator skin begins tormenting him, Bradley must turn to the only person who might be able to help: his estranged father. The Alligator is a Southern gothic tale of legacies, secrets, fear, and coming-of-age in Blackness.
finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2023)
development, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows (2020-2021)
The Story and the Teller
Set in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprising, The Story and the Teller follows the resident acting company of a fictional Memphis theatre tasked with devising a play about the 1878 Yellow Fever epidemic and its effect on Memphis’s Black, white, and immigrant citizens. Challenging enough on its own, the process is marred by questions and disagreements about history, race, gender, safety and storytelling, issues that played out in both 1878 and 2020 in dizzying ways.
commission, development and workshop production, University of Memphis Dept. of Theatre and Dance (2020-2021)