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Richard NelsonDescription
"Poets' Walk is the name of a park, or rather a series of trails that skirt along the Hudson River. Legend has it that Washington Irving got his idea for Rip Van Winkle while walking through this property and gazing out at the Catskill Mountains... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marion Isaac McClintonDescription
POLICE BOYS explores the conflict and tensions between a group of police officers and the community they're sworn to serve
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 195 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Robert AlexanderDescription
A PREFACE TO THE ALIEN GARDEN takes a hard look at the gangsta lifestyle in present-day Kansas City.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Y YorkDescription
In the future, after the global ecological disaster, so much that makes life worth living has been outlawed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
Race and science collide in Cassandra Medley's trenchant drama. Claire is a melanin scientist. She believes people of color are genetically superior — physically, mentally, in every way... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Mia McCulloughDescription
SINCE AFRICA chronicles the relationship between a Dinka refugee from Southern Sudan and three Americans — a North Shore socialite, her daughter, and an African American Deacon — who help him acclimate to Chicago's unfamiliar urban surroundings... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
On the occasion of his sister's wedding, Craig struggles with haunting flashbacks to the war and the bomb he dropped on a wedding party... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Reginald EdmundDescription
A white widow is assaulted; an angry mob is at the jail house door, screaming “Lynch him!” The only way to untangle the truth about the events is for the accused, Christopher C Davis, to look into the events that have led him to a tree stump in Athens, Ohio, in the year 1881.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, 1 female and 2 males are black)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
On the night in 1939 when Count Basie is to be the first black performer at the Palomar Ballroom next door, a pair of Bimini Baths attendants are tasked with cleaning up a stranger fished out of the La Brea Tar Pits.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Steve CarterDescription
A tragicomical look at the current state of our country, with a special nod to the American habit of mispronouncing "Nuclear," "Acapulco," "Realtor," and "Inauguration... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Loften MitchellDescription
TELL PHARAOH is the story of Harlem, our nation's foremost black community.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
George Stevens, JrDescription
THURGOOD depicts the life of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, and his role in the historic decision on the Brown v... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Karani Marcia JohnsonDescription
In THE TRIAL OF ONE SHORT SIGHTED BLACK WOMAN VS MAMMY LOUISE AND SAFREETA MAE, Karani Marcia Leslie explodes the plantation myth of Mammy Louise as the protector and nurturer of the Master's family, and her mulatto daughter, Safreeta Mae, the willing sexual toy of the master in a courtroom ritual-drama that has Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae defending themselves against indictment from Victoria, an upscale, professional Black woman who feels that their images limit her potential to be taken seriously for career advancement.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Aishah RahmanDescription
UNFINISHED WOMEN deals with the events in a home for unwed mothers on the last day of jazz musician Charlie Parker's life, March 12, 1955... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (7 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Dominic TaylorDescription
Jacqueeda needs four dollars and sixty cents to go to her mother's boyfriend's funeral, and buy him a headstone... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeed help?