(10 roles)
While studying abroad in Prague, Maya, a Black college student from Connecticut, meets an elusive Czech documentarian making a film examining the complicated history of the city's small Namibian community. A spiral on how to tell the truth.
Development:
[upcoming November 2026] Workshop and Public Presentation at the University of Michigan, produced by Gideon Theatricals
[upcoming Spring 2027] Emerging Writers Spotlight Reading Series at The Public Theater
(3 roles)
An urgent tale of reconciliation and rupture unfolds between a daughter and her mother, who has been living alone with a mysterious watchman in the antebellum-era Whitt Hall for the past ten years. As they struggle to piece together fragments of time, questions about their roots and ties to the past are unearthed on the manor's grounds.
Development:
The Makers' Ensemble Short Play Festival (May 2026)
Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps
Cast:
MOTHER- Messeret Stroman Wheeler
DAUGHTER- Megan Ruoro
WATCHMAN- David Skeist
Yale Playwright's Festival (2024)
Directed by Joseph Lee
(12 roles)
Celia, a philosophy scholar, finds herself confronting questions of meaning and mattering as she embarks on a journey of Black motherhood. Her journey insects with those of her mother, grandmother, and further generations, each grappling with the question of how to care.
Development:
Reading at Yale University (2024)