Official selection at Pan African Film Fest, ReelSisters of the Diaspora Film Fest, Martha's Vineyard Black Film Fest, HBRC
Melody Brooks was the first NYC producer to present my work in 1999 (STRAIGHT TALK AGAINST THE GRAIN) in NPTC Voices from the Edge series. In 2019, I invited her to moderate the post reading chat of my play DESTINATION OOH AHH YUMMY at Conch Shell New Works Reading Series. Special thanks to Melody; my mentors Paul Carter Harrison and Richard Harden; and an amazing community of funder, actors, directors, and stage managers who have have supported my writing journey.
Claudette outwits her trickster sister Penny and pulls the ultimate prank. Can Penny be punk'd?
Joanne finally decides to break up with her dead husband. Is death enough to keep them apart?
Joanne decides to take a leap into internet dating. Can she survive the deep dive?
Tom Mayer comes up with a scheme to win the affections of his boss.
Bebe Mayer calls her siblings to help save her from having a melt down at casting call. If she can survive the Spit Test...can she survive anything?
It's Helen Mayer's birthday. Her family is gathered to celebrate her..including her ex-husband. Can the Mayer clan get through this celebration with the Mayer parents pissing each other off..
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)
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
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)
The Hunting Season SFC Post reading discussion
Left to right: (panelists)Ebony Noelle Golden, Hannah Seymour, Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly, (actors) Douglas Everett Davis,Pascale Piquion,Phillip Burke, Kim Awon, Stephen Hill, Jill Marie Lawrence
Post Reading Discussion Topic: Race, accountability, the power of art to promote discourse and political activism, and the current period of intensified "racialized" police brutality in America.
Presented by St. Francis College Communications Department
Following the staged reading of DESTINATION OOOH AAAH YUMMY 2019
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