FIRSTCLASS
2 women & 3 men
Tasha has escaped her life in the projects of Memphis, Tennessee and made a life in the heart of New York City. She had no plans to ever return until her sister has an emergency. Tasha attempts to reconcile her torn history with her opulent present and along the way pick up the pieces of herself she left behind. Play still being written
LOCKDOWN
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.
LILYVINE
14 characters [non-gender specific] approximately 80 mins
a children's play
The uptight, inhospitable Goodies and the artistic, misunderstood Hoodies battle for territory and resources in this hip-hop tale of scarcity and immigration.
ON LOVE
7 characters
open casting
Fire. Butterfly. Rollercoaster. How do you meaningfully connect? In this series of 7 short vignettes, poems and songs, ON LOVE, showcases the eight different types of love and the depths in which the human emotion can feel.
OTHELLO
open casting
approximately 2.5 hours
In her update of Shakespeare’s Othello, Mfoniso Udofia engages with the racial malice at the heart of the play. Udofia’s take on this complicated story emphasizes the rhythm and lyrical patterns of Othello’s speech. Opening up the text to modern ears, Udofia presents us with a code-switched Othello.
This translation of Othello was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of “The Bard” in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse.