A MESSAGE/A WERK

CHRCH shares one woman’s testimony and spirited journey of self-acceptance, enlightenment and "salvation" through house music. 2021

INVITE ONLY READING ANACOSTIA ARTS CENTER APRIL 30, 2022

MICRO DEV. SESSION NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

LOCAL THEATRE RESIDENCY KENNEDY CENTER OCT. 17-OCT. 21, 2022

READING POP CONFERENCE NYC

PUBLIC READING The Warehouse @1360 May 17, 2023

FESTIVAL ON THE SQUARE CONGO SQUARE THEATRE JULY 29, 2023

Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival The Reach September 2023

WORLD PREMIERE /CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL 2024

PLAY

In a random city in the 1990’s nineteen year old Rae, an aspiring DJ along with homies Hassan and Quentin set out on an adventurous night experiencing house music for the first time.

Shawty (14) is just wants to finish her poem but is interrupted by her skater neighbor, Freeda(15). Inspired by Lupe Fiasco’s hit Kick Push, the girls form a connection through the blues.

Ten-Minute Play Debuted at the 2024 Detroit Hip Hop Theatre Festival

Reading JUNE 2025 AMT THEATRE NY

FULL LENGTH PLAY

What do Black women do in kitchens? On labor day weekend almost a year shy of the one year-anniversary of the passing of their Grandmother, affectionately known as G, for sisters Sissi and Tasha post up in G’s famed kitchen to reflect, challenge one another as they unpack each other's lives and their matriarchal traditions. G’s home/kitchen was always a sanctuary for Sissi, G’s protege who had dreams of becoming a Chef yet it was always a place of contention for the brilliant and feisty researcher Tasha. As they prepare for a family cookout how might the two sisters navigate their feelings around their own expectations of themselves each other and their future?

Public Reading June 14th, 2023 Eaton House

Writer’s Group. The Workshop Theatre 2025 Online Spring Intensive

Public Reading, April 26, 2025 Hot House Block Party , Theatre Alliance

Angel-La, Terry, Jackie and Retta are playing the roles of a lifetime. Maybe. Who’s really playing who? The Industry, Their community or themselves.

PLAY

THE KTCHN is where families gather. It is where both food and hair are burned. The KTCHN is the place on the Black girl’s head that is the most resistant. The KTCHN follows Icy (Isis), an intuitive hair stylist known for her eclectic lewks. On the eve of her 33rd birthday Icy proclaims to her gurls Hattie (Hathor) , Taam (Maat) and Wadea (Wadjet) that she is taking her “Jesus year” seriously and is determined to solidify her future with a new career, new outlook on life and a new hairstyle; her own natural hair. REVEAL! NOBODY EVER SEES ICY'S REAL HAIR. Guided by Goddesses known as The Three Strands, Icy embarks on a journey through her own hair story. Will she finally accept herself and discover her true destiny?

TEN MINUTE PLAY

Diana faces her own insecurities while navigating her pessimistic mother and a confident assistant one afternoon in a Bridal shop.

(TEN MINUTE PLAY) 2021

TWO STRIKES THEATRE BROWN SUGAR BAKEOFF FESTIVAL 2021

Sookie and Junie want out! Out of their small town. Out of America. Out of the world. Fed up and sitting in the town's diner the two consider their own futures as they embark on a mission like their hero Lt. Uhura on a new space show titled Star Trek. Will the discovery of two red quarters and a cryptic note be their ticket to find a new world, a new life and to boldly go where no Black women have gone before?

Short Play

As the symptoms continue…

PLAY

A multimedia production about many Black girl experiences. Conceived by Seshat Yon’shea. Co-Written with Cast. MAY 2001 at DC ARTS CENTER

A teen soccer prodigy navigates her futbol career while saving her family after her suburban mom, head of a matriarchal drug empire is deported.

AN EPISODIC SERIES

In a seemingly utopian Black future, Ari Audra Lee, a ten-year-old skeptic with an obsession for Sista Soulah and Black sitcoms , embarks on a mission to save her free spirited parents from divorce.

AN EPISODIC SERIES (IN PROGRESS)