(PLAY)WRITER
I am an Afro-Futurist historian—blending time and space to offer myself healing from trauma, and to remind everyday radicals that magic is a revolutionary resource.
ALL MY MOTHERS DREAM IN SPANISH
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Inspired by Afro-Venezuelan folk history, All My Mothers Dream in Spanish is about three generations of an Afro-Latinx family and their encounters with their ancestor named Guiomar. An Afro-Venezuelan folk hero, Guiomar was queen of Buría, a kingdom established by Africans who rebelled against enslavement in 1552. Guiomar also had the capacity for magic and has passed this on to her descendants who are: A Grandmother who worked as a housekeeper and now listens to the birds who visit her mango tree… A Mother who is a successful physician in the United States and never taught her daughter her mother tongue… A Daughter who dropped out of law school to join a revolution in the same forest where Guiomar reigned as queen. This play is made of midnight conversations, Spanglish, and dreams that leave visible scars.
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World premiere, Azuka Theatre y Teatro del Sol (Philadelphia)
Black Spatial Relics Residency
Cimientos New Play Development at IATI Theater
La Fábrica New Play Residency at Teatro del Sol
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Barrymore nominated, Outstanding Original Production
Photography by Johanna Austin
MAR-Z: A MENSTRUAL MUSICAL
(WORKING TITLE)
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A duet for one body, Mar-Z: A Menstrual Musical is part stand-up, part-experimental dance, and always about AZ and his Imaginary Martian Friend Mar-Z who first appeared to them at 4-years old when discovering the discomforts of (gender) dysphoria.
(Currently in Development)
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Subcircle Residency, Biddeford ME
StudioWorks at Leah Stein Dance Company
REAP (Residency for Emerging Artists Project) Leah Stein Dance Company
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CARIBBEAN KING
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Caribbean King is a de-colonial, trans-gressive, adaptive confrontation with Shakespeare’s King Lear in which Cord(elia) fights to survive against a catastrophic hurricane barreling towards his family’s resort, and his hotelier father’s unshakeable belief that he is a daughter, not a son. A love letter to found family and queer community building, the play features a chorus of drag performers who play the role of the hurricane, and has Black, Queer, Diasporic liberation at the eye of its storm.
(In Development)
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Philadelphia Theatre Company/Cannonball Text and Dramaturgy Cohort Selection
Queer Art Fellowship (mentored by Raja Feather Kelly)
Seven Devils New Play Foundry, Playwright in Residence
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival
Finalist, MAP Fund
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HOMERIDAE
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Mac, an adjunct lecturer, and Nessa, a freshman, have a lot in common. They’re slightly awkward, deeply passionate about Homer’s The Odyssey, and are Black AF in a very white department at a very white school. When they stumble upon the discovery that Homer himself came from Africa they must figure out how best to honor this truth in the face of university administrators, overbearing older siblings, the Internet, and Homer himself. HOMERIDAE is a play about who controls the narrative, and about finding your voice when it seems like no one is listening.
HOMERIDAE is ready for its World Premiere!
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AzukaFest, Azuka Theatre
National New Play Network Showcase of New Plays
In-Progress New Play Reading Series, Unicorn Theatre
Studio X-hibit Reading Series, Theatre Exile
Seven Devils New Play Foundry Playwrights Festival
Great Plains Theatre Conference, New Play Festival
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Exxx…stasis…exxx…hale…
AZ
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MOVEMENT
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IN · MOVEMENT ·
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Euripides by way of Anne Carson by way of your Zoom screen. Queer activists Nadia and Cecily are trying to make their socially distanced relationship work, but trying to keep it sexy is a whole different grape on the vine. When they both join a Zoom-room nightclub hosted by DJ Dion, the two love birds are thrust beyond their mundane digital world into an intoxicating new dimension. A glimpse into our current cultural moment, exxx...stasis, exxx...hale… serves up a politically radical, and radically queer, virtual fantasia. “So dance.”
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