award winning plays
The Hunting Season
O'Neill NPC 2021 Semi-Finalist
Festival Production:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivities (Winner of Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction of a New Play & Outstanding Playwriting of a New Play Awards)
Synopsis: Synopsis: A Haitian family living in the United States endeavors to alter a premonition that their son will be killed by police. Can spiritual intervention alter a Black man's fate in America?
(Genre: Drama/Magical Realism)
Silent Truth
O'Neill NPC 2018 Semi-Finalist
Public Readings: North Carolina Black Repertory Company (2019); Hear Her Call Caribbean American Women's Theatre Festival - 2020 Reading Series
Synopsis: Silent Truth explores a Haitian American woman's battle to hide her mental health issues from her success-oriented family members. When a platter of cannabis-infused brownies trigger the exposure of her secret, she is surprised to discover that generations of her family members have suffered with mental health issues silently and shamefully. As the women of her family come together to support her, is she brave enough get the help she needs to heal?
(Genre: Drama/Magical Realism)
Video footage from 2020 Hear Her Call Caribbean American Women's Theatre Fest Reading
Destination Oooh Aaah Yummy
Princess Grace Award - Semi-Finalist
Public Readings: Liberation Theater; Conch Shell New Works Reading Series
A comatose woman travels along the road of her subconscious mind as she struggles find order and purpose in life. Guided by female spirit beings, can she figure out how to live in a world with no absolutes, or will she give in to the certainty of not living.
(Genre: Dark Comedy/Magical Realism)
EARLY DAYS
Official selection at Pan African Film Fest, ReelSisters of the Diaspora Film Fest, Martha's Vineyard Black Film Fest, HBRC
No matter where you are from you are going to having questions about your heritage...I had a strong connection with Grace because I am an immigrant, and when I have kids they are going to have questions about where they come from. ...this play explores live affirming power of knowing..
H.R.
