African American
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Reginald EdmundDescription
When a rookie cop is suspected of murdering a young black kid in the neighborhood playground, District Attorney Harrison Just sets out to discover the truth and along the way finds himself standing between an approaching battle between the community he is a part of and the city that he serves.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, all characters, except 1 male, are African American)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Kermit Frazier and John LeichtDescription
A passionate retelling of the Daniel Bell incident, in which a black man was shot and killed while running from police officers.
Production Info
Cast: 20 total (5 female, 15 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Y YorkDescription
A tender, quirky play about two white women and a black man living in Seattle in 1992, as the nation and the media are transfixed by the trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused in the beating of Rodney King and the outcry of protest after the verdicts.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Lee HunkinsDescription
Two women sharing a hospital room cope with breast cancer, husbands, and racial barriers.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 55 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Kermit FrazierDescription
Two Black male figures search for purpose and companionship in a disruptive, destructive, principally white world.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Rachel LynettDescription
Who gets to be a part of Latinidad? While Valery fights to prove Ximena isn't Cuban, Alia has given up fighting that she is Latine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Michael Benjamin WashingtonDescription
In the political and racial upheaval of 1963, Bayard Rustin — the brilliant proponent of nonviolent civil resistance — is pushed to orchestrate an unprecedented march on Washington D... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, bit parts: a chorus of ancestors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Star FinchDescription
BONDAGE takes place pre-Emancipation on a small island in the Caribbean. With the onset of puberty, Zuri must use her wits to outsmart the twisted desires of a drunken master and a sadistic mistress on a haunted plantation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male, 2 of the female characters should always be played by black actors or those who identify as biracial/black)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
Subtitled "a light and dark skin comedy," CHIAROSCURO is set on a cruise ship peopled by black singles where "pretty" means light-skinned, and all the men are dark, and Papa Legba, the African trickster spirit, is disguised as a ship steward.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesKermit FrazierDescription
Three Black former high school classmates meet in a mind-twisting, revelatory reunion.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 35 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesKermit FrazierCollection Description
Five provocative and surprising one-act plays about all manner of need, love, and survival. DINAH WASHINGTON IS DEAD: Two Black Air Force officers struggle to cope with isolation and longing in West Texas... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Steve CarterDescription
Picton and Dorcas, ancient now, came to this country with an internal, eternal love that made them blind to the fact that the darker aspects of the elusive Dame Lorraine found homes in the hearts of their eight sons... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
Alma tries to reckon with injuries suffered by her beautiful daughter, Monique, while serving in the U... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Reginald EdmundDescription
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON follows a runaway slave girl and a former plantation mistress wanted for murder as they embark on a perilous journey North towards freedom, guided by an Ancient African Goddess.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (7 female, 6 roles are for black actors)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesKermit FrazierDescription
Two Black Air Force officers struggle to cope with isolation and longing in West Texas.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes