Black Girl You've Been Gentrified
Dramaturge/TV Writing Coach
Talkback moderated by Michaela Angela Davis
Writer, Nichole Thompson Adams & Director Zhalion Levingston
TV Script Writing Coach/Dramaturge
Over the course of a year, I supported playwriting/TV Writer Nichole Thompson Adams with using her original play, Black Girl You've Been Gentrified, as source material to create a Television pilot for her TV Dramadey Series. The work was methodical, emotional and gratifying.
In February of 2023 the piece also hit another milestone when it was produced by Epoch Films as a podcast TV pilot airing on New York Public Radio. The photo and video images are from the sold out reading of segments from the pilot script!
The reading was directed by theatre director, Zhailon Levingston and the disucssion was moderated by Michaela Angela Davis. Click the youtube video below to get your laugh on!
Pilot Plot - Nichole Thompson-Adams is a struggling actress with a side hustle in real estate and a lot to lose. When her husband suddenly dies, she’s confronted with the harrowing yet hilarious ironies of the precarious life she’s built: selling brownstones to rich white folks in her native Brooklyn as she struggles to keep her kids in elite “progressive” schools in Manhattan. The culture clash is real. As are the bills. Can she remain true to herself and her values while facing the fact that she may be complicit in gentrifying her own neighborhood, family, and life?
