Welcome Back? 

Based on veteran interviews conducted at Carthage College in 2017 with student veteran Lawrence Gums, Welcome Back was written in 2019.  Carthage alumni Alex Johnson and Elodie Senetra were instrumental in workshopping and editing the script to its final form.  The play received its premiere staged reading with Johnson and Senetra at the 2019 Vet Night of the Arts, held at Carthage College in November 2019.  Below is the complete text of the play as performed.