(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.

CARIBBEAN KING

  • 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 childhood home, and his father’s unshakeable belief that he is a daughter, not a son. A love letter to Black Queer Diasporic Drag and Performance communities, the play charts Cord's reawakening to place, self, and what leadership can look like in service to Queer collectives and in the face of the climate crisis.

    • 2026 Philadelphia Theatre Company Terrence McNally Award Winner

    • 2026 Flamboyance Awards Winner “Boundary Breaker”

    • 2025 Philadelphia Theatre Company/Cannonball Text and Dramaturgy Cohort Selection 

    • 2025 Queer Art Fellowship (mentored by Raja Feather Kelly)

    • 2023 Seven Devils New Play Foundry, Playwright in Residence 

    • Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival

    • Finalist, MAP Fund

MAR-Z: A MENSTRUAL MUSICAL

  • A duet for one body, Mar-Z: A Menstrual Musical is part stand-up, part-experimental dance, and always a reckoning between AZ and the maps he has made in defense against the discomforts of dysphoria. The question is, can he read them? A piece written for a body in transition, AZ is testing out some new material before another bout of puberty renders it all prematurely outdated. (*includes discussions of nudity, male menstruation, body dysmorphia, gender dysphoria, cryptids, aliens, and time travel).

    (Currently in Development)

    • 2024 Subcircle Residency, Biddeford ME (with Severin Blake and Lu Donovan)

    • 2024 StudioWorks at Leah Stein Dance Company

    • 2025-26REAP (Residency for Emerging Artists Project) Leah Stein Dance Company

    • 2026 Longshot Experimental Comedy Series at Vox Populi Gallery (with Cat Ramirez)

    • Click hereto see a Mar-Z joke

    • Click here to see a Mar-Z dance (voiced by Severin Blake and Lu Donovan, text by Alice Sparkly Kat)

    • photo credit Sam Johnson

ALL MY MOTHERS DREAM IN SPANISH

  • 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.

    • 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

HOMERIDAE

  • 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!

    • 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

Exxx…stasis…exxx…hale…

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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.”