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Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

2000

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

2000

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Synopsis: Fourteen years in the life of Prix, a Bronx native, from her ruthless girl-gang leadership at sixteen through her coming to maturity at thirty. But children do not become violent in a vacuum: As a small child Prix was raped by her mother's longtime lover-being with the family on and off from the time Prix was two until sixteen-while her mother lived in a blind denial world. Amidst all the brutality Prix is still a kid with her own dreams and delights: fireworks. In the course of the play Prix is locked in teen jail with a lonely outcast, and later in a women's facility with a white woman who thinks she's black Prix comes to face old demons: conversations with the mother's lover, long dead; a chance meeting with a woman who has spent her adult life in a wheelchair because of a confrontation with Prix in their teens; at twenty-eight, an old woman by gang standards, being on the other side of punishment by the fourteen-year-old daughter of a "sister" Prix used to kick around; and ultimately coming to terms with

Long Warf Theatre, USA

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Otterbien College Theatre in Westerville, Ohio

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Long Warf Theatre, USA

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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Synopsis: Skoolie lives in a clean, tiny shack at the top of the big hill, across from the small grocer. She doesn't have the use of her legs and uses a cart built close to the ground to get to the store, and around the house where her appliances are cut close to the floor. Her sister, Tee, is living with her, again, with her three small children. Though Tee is welcome, it is a hardship to support everyone on Skoolie's income from plaiting hair and occasionally performing abortions. As time goes on, it grows increasingly difficult for Skoolie to handle the extra people; last time Tee came to live, two of her children died from lack of food. Tee is very simple in the way she looks at the world, sometimes too much so, which causes a familiar family antagonism between the women-a caring but at-odds view on how to better their lives. When Skoolie discovers that Tee is again pregnant, she tries to convince her to give up the baby. Tee loves her children and though at first does not want to think about it knows that she does

Hartford Stage Company

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Second Stage Theatre

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Synopsis: While examining the concept of family structure--both traditional and non-traditional--Digging Eleven is a powerful and sensitive play that explores the strength of love and the importance of remembrance. At the center of one African-American, family is a young girl, Ness, and the prophetic grandmother who helps her realize a future by unearthing the past. Amid the politics of workers rights, homosexuality and hate crimes, Ness is coming of age with an air of independence that leaves you hopeful for her future. "This is actually my most personal play," playwright Kia Corthron said. "My father worked in paper mills all of his life, and, unlike any other play of mine, a character is based on somebody I know, my grandmother. This play is literally like family to me."

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Synopsis: Three generations of African-American New York City police officers: 1) twenty-four-year-old Dece, disillusioned and confused in a contemporary world of drug violence and brutality, whose present-day struggles go beyond the routine paradox of being both black and a cop: He and his vaguely racist white partner become indicted in the death of a black female civilian. 2) Dece's deceased parents-a practical, optimistic mother and a father frustrated by racism within the ranks of the force. 3) And Dece's grandfather, a man whose experience has instilled within him the awareness that there is a way out of the carnage and distrust between the African-American and police communities. A jagged, precarious journey whereby all gradually grasp that understanding comes not just through seeing others but hearing.

Playwrights Horizons, USA

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Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

2007

2006-2007 Actors Theatre Apprentice Company

Humana Festival 2007: The Complete Plays

2008

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Notes: written by Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Michael John Garces, Rolin Jones, A. Rey Pamatmat and Kathryn Walat, with music by GrooveLily

Synopsis: The call of the open road has reverberated since the founding of our nation: the wind in our hair and promise of a new life around the corner; or in the legacy of land taken, communities divided and the increasingly guarded borders behind which Americans drive. Comic and thought-provoking, these writers examine how America's yearning for unfettered freedom resonates today and where it rings hollow.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States)

2006

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Playscrips, Inc - 1072

2006

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Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville

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Synopsis: A composite shot of African America. . . with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. S

Goodman Theatre, Chicago

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Synopsis: Six-year-old hyper Kite "flies." But his teacher tells his mother, C Ana, that his ever-excitement is a brain disease and urges medication: Ritalin. Not just to calm him down-his jumpiness, C Ana is told, is cerebrally, genetically related to sixteen-year-old brother Justin's gang violence. C Ana believes it's all poppycock. Her nineteen-year-old niece Cheryl, however, hanging around the family's apartment in the projects to tutor Kite and shy eight-year-old sister Kandal, supports the teacher. Cheryl lost all three of her brothers to street violence and desperately seeks a solution. Justin attempts the difficult, dangerous road out of the gangs and along the path is startled by the realization that his mother thinks his extracurricular activities were the result of some brain malformation; Kandal continues getting As while learning nothing-a reward for being "well behaved"; and Kite, medicated, gets quieter, skinnier, sleepless and, while there is no academic improvement, the lesson he learns, or comes to be

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

2003

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in Humana Festival 2003: The Complete Plays, Edited by Tanya Palmer and Amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus

2003

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Yale Rep Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut

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Synopsis: Thyme is fifteen, an A student and three months' pregnant. Erry is eighteen, the opposite of book smart and lives with his wife, Thyme, in the bedroom of her parents' Harlem apartment. Shaneequa is fifteen, Thyme's best friend, mother of an infant and has picked up the habit during her current pregnancy of eating dirt. Erry gets a job in construction, but his health slowly begins to deteriorate: occupational lead inhalation. Besides Thyme's obsessions with all the mechanics of the maturing fetus inside her and with the option of delivering in water, she has recently become fascinated with urban politics of the environment: why communities of color are consistently housed in the most hazardous areas. She is a data-gathering machine yet remains strangely oblivious to Erry's mounting illness-her research fixation suddenly, devastatingly brought home.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, AL, USA >>>

2003

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Circle Rep Lab

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