From Mississippi Goddamn

 CLAUDETTE: No. What I’m telling you is that this neighborhood has a lot of eyes and ears and those eyes and ears are Negro and what they see and hear they report back to white folks.

ROBBIE: What White folks?
 
CLAUDETTE: The White Citizens Council. The police. The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission. The Klan. It doesn’t matter. Pick your poison. It’s all the same thing.
 
ROBBIE: Negros report to the Klan?
 
CLAUDETTE: Some do. Not all. But some do. And some of them live on this very street.
            (Beat)
Maybe even in this very house.
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a love offering - (3 W, 2 M) T’Wana Jepson has been bit before - and scratched - kicked - punched - and called every dirty word in the book. It comes with the territory as a nurse’s aide caring for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia. But after T’Wana is attacked by the patient in E 204, something happens that forces her to fight back.

penny candy -(3M, 3 W, One Boy) Growing up in a candy house sounds like every kid’s dream. But for 12-year-old Jon-Jon, helping his father run Paw Paw’s Candy Tree out of their run-down one-bedroom apartment isn’t quite a dream come true. As their neighborhood sees a surge of violence fueled by epidemic drug use and increasing racial tensions, the business begins to fail and danger looms immediately outside Jon-Jon’s front door. Oh, and then there’s the looming threat of Vacation Bible School. Worst summer ever! penny candy follows one family as they seek to balance their responsibilities to their community and to one another.

Mississippi Goddamn - Finalist, Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Winner, 2016 M. Elizabeth Cohen New Play Award. (3M, 3W) A tension-filled drama about the assassination of Medgar Evers.

My Tidy List of Terrors - (4W, 1M, 2 Boys) A coming of Age Tale Set Against the backdrop of the Atlanta Child Murders.

UPCOMING: Mississippi Goddamn. Playhouse on the Square in Memphis.
My Tidy List of Terrors. Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth.

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​Photo Credits: Karen Almond, Jordan Fraker, Melyssa Jade, and Classi Nance Photography.