INSIDE OUT
10 minute
Tasha and Don are two sisters trying to stay alive in spite of a healthcare system that seems to get harder to navigate the more they need it. This play reminds us that, whether you find yourself aided by plants, yoga, crystals, or a long nap, true healing happens from the inside out.
can i touch it?
full length
Shay is many things - a business owner, a single mom, a community leader - but there’s one thing she’s definitely not: a pawn in United Bank’s efforts to buy up foreclosed real estate in the heart of Boston’s black community. At risk of losing her own store to the bank, she is forced to choose between a personal fight for her family’s livelihood and a moral fight against gentrification. When pushed to her limits, Shay finds herself in the fantastical peaceful place where women of color have to recede into when they get asked stupid ass questions. Using devices like double casting through onstage wig changes, can i touch it? examines themes of black hair politics, social exclusion and the racial inequity black owned businesses face every day.
not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play)
full length
When offered a fancy promotion over her more experienced coworker, Nadine is left at a morally conflicting crossroads. All around her, hell begins to break lose at RiseUP, an education nonprofit that matches urban youth of color with inspiring mentors from the world of business. A scandal involving a student breaks, and Nadine discovers that RiseUP isn’t as worthy and wholesome as it pretends to be. not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) tackles the dichotomy of policy vs. practice and investigates what is really at the core of toxic, microaggressive workplace environments.
Photo Cred: @garliacornelia / Garlia Cornelia Jones
Scholarship babies
10 minute
For the first time in Felicia's life, the unthinkable has happened - she, a lifelong recipient of academic scholarships, has been denied free money to attend graduate school. Her plan to get alternative funding is shattered when she and her two best friends miss the annual reunion cruise for their prestigious private school and are left stranded on the dock. scholarship babies is a cutting examination of educational privilege, affirmative action and what it truly means to go from rags to riches in today’s society.
Heritage Hill Naturals
full length
In an effort to avoid confronting her declining mental health, recent college graduate Lucilia volunteers a month of free labor to an organic farm in rural Georgia. There, she encounters ignorance bordering on racism, religious fanaticism, and too healthy eating habits that force her to question whether escaping into a world of green living was really an escape at all.
pay no worship
full length
Born and raised on Fogo, a tiny African Island, cousins Martin and Jose live at the base of a giant volcano and struggle to make a living in the precarious wine industry that has been the main source of their family's income for generations. While one refuses to give up on tradition and is content to continue living a simplistic rural life, the other longs for a visa to America in order to pursue a higher education. Both dreams and volcanoes are at risk of erupting as the cousins fight for opportunity, understanding, and their lives when a tropical storm headed toward the island threatens to destroy everything they know.