a working artist statement ish…

i write for release and revelation, to push the heavy off, to stay free.

i’m inspired by the various non-monolithic interior lives of Black women.

i’m also inspired by being misunderstood, being spicy in the neuro regions and also by the air around acapellas, the emotional waves from rhythm and repetition

and for certain by art , design, nature

and of course by community codes and vernacular, unmarked roads, never ending fields, country folk.

i write plays like cooking  (I don’t cook) not measuring but by feel,  taste…intuition.

i acquire flavors, pour over words, syllables, allow them to simmer, marinate ultimately serving up full worlds and imaginings nuff for all.

I write by listening, observing, questioning, not being satisfied, falling into the groove, into space, laughing, tripping into my own silly, digging toes into earth, being alone …prayer

i write to share truth-mine and others. I write to reflect my most authentic self.

I write to poke fun, to dissect to stir things within all of us to do better for ourselves and in turn to do better for humanity. 

allergies: fake bammas, talented tenth energy, social media noise, scammers, spammers,

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Women’s Work Full Length Lab, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC

New Pages, New Stages Festival, Presented by Theatre Alliance, Studio Theatre DC

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Playwright Group, DC

2025

2025 DC Commission of The Arts Fellowship Recipient , Playwrighting

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Playwright Group, DC

Finalist, AGE Legacy Playwright Grant

Meganne George Women's Work Short Play Festival, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC

Neighborhood Plays Reading Series, AMT THEATER, NYC

Hot House New Play Block Party, Theatre Alliance, DC

2025 SPRING WORKSHOP INTENSIVES, THE WORKSHOP THEATRE, NYC

2025 Cohort, Women’s Work Lab, New Perspectives Theatre, NYC

2024

2024 Finalist The Women’s Work Lab NYC

2024 Finalist for AGE Legacy Playwright Grant

SHAWY’S BLUES 2024 BRED HIP HOP THEATRE FEST DETROIT

Selected for the 2024 International Black Theatre Festival’s GARLAND THOMPSON, SR. READERS’ THEATRE OF NEW WORKS WINSTON SALEM

June Bingham Playwright Commission Finalist SALEM

CHRCH Selected for Capital Fringe 2024 DC

2024 DC Commission of The Arts Fellowship Recipient , THEATRE

CHRCH, A BLACK MUSIC STORY Reading, Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival

2023

Selected for Congo Square Theatre Festival On the Square Reading Series, CHICAGO

Dramatic Question Theatre Digital Stage Season 2023

Familial Comforts Play Reading, Eaton House, DC

Transom Specials Selection

CHRCH, A Black Music Story Public Reading, DC

CHRCH, A Black Music Story 2023 Pop Conference  NYC

2022

Selected for Dramatic Question Theatre’s Playtime Development Workshop

CHRCH: A Black Music Story Kennedy Center Social Impact’s Local Theatre Residency Program from October 17th-21st, 2022.

Testimony: Fear The Kindness 2022 Playwrights Experiment’s Monologue Festival #4 and Anthology. NYC

Finalist for the National Black Theatre’s I Am Soul Playwright Residency, NYC

Finalist AGE LEGACY PLAYWRIGHT GRANT

2021

Finalist in the Playwright Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival, NYC

Selected and participated in the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive. DC