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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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.

The 67th Book of the Bible (1W, 2M) A thrilling look at how MLK's Letter From A Birmingham Jail came to be. (one-act)

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

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.

UPCOMING: penny candy. World Premiere, Dallas Theater Center - June 2019

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​Photo Credits: Classi Nance Photography, Kenneisha Thompson and Melyssa Jade