EMPLOYMENT
MFA Playwriting Co- Program Director, English Department
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Jan 2022 - Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities Department
LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY March 2019 - Present
Adjunct Professor, Theatre and Dance Department
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Sept 2019 - Present
Faculty, Einhorn School of Performing Arts
Primary Stages, New York, NY March 2021 - Present
Teaching Artist, Creative Arts Team
City University of New York, New York, NY Nov 2016 - June 2020
Workshop Teacher, Atlantic Acting School
Atlantic Theater Company, New York, NY Sept 2015 - Present
AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS
Clubbed Thumb, Early Career Writers Group 2017
National Black Theatre, I AM SOUL Playwright Resident 2016-17
Djerassi Resident Artist Program, 2016
Atlantic Theater Company, Launch Commission 2014-15
Human Brown Creative Writing Award, 2011-12
35th Annual Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, 2010
PUBLICATIONS:
When We Wake Up Dead, Samuel French, Inc., 2020
The Fire This Time Festival Anthology, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
48 Hours in... Harlem 10 Minute Plays, Vol. 2 Anthology, 2017
Hands Up 7 Playwrights 7 Testaments, Samuel French, 2017
The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi, 35th OOB Samuel French Festival Plays, 2011
WRITING:
*sample excerpts available upon request
FULL LENGTH PLAYS
The Cost
Developed for The Lark, Roundtable Reading Series. January 2020
Manhood
Developed during The National Black Theater of Harlem, I Am Soul Workshop Production, February 2017 (Russell G. Jones, Dir.)
-Counter-Productions Theatre Company, Readings in Autumn Series, September 2018 (Ronald Lewis Dir.)
The Man Monster Mary Jones
Developed for Atlantic Theater Company’s Launch Commission, December 2015 (Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dir.)
When We Wake Up Dead
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Reading Series. February 2014 (Christopher Burris, Dir.) -Brooklyn College, The New Workshop Theater, March 2016 (Christopher Burris, Dir.)
America’s Favorite Pastime
Developed for The New Black Fest/ Lark Play Development Center, March 2015 (Christopher Burris, Dir.)
-Counter- Productions Theatre Company, Reading in Autumn Series, September 2015 ( Ted Clement, Dir.)
The Special Technique of Shadow Boxing
The National Black Theater of Harlem, Keep Soul Alive Reading Series, July 2014 (Christopher Burris Dir.)
Never No in Between
Liberation Theatre Company, New Works Reading Series, October 2011 (Christopher Burris Dir.)
ONE-ACT PLAYS
Mother.
The Fire This Time Festival, The Kraine Theatre, February 2014 The Naked Expedition Project, Theater Lab, January 2015
Are You Not Entertained?
Part of the Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Blood Festival, CSC, August 2013 (Benjamin Kamine & Christopher Burris Dir.)
SHORT PLAYS
Traditional
Now Africa Playwrights Festival, National Black Theatre, October 2016
TBTB’s The Other Plays, ART New York Theaters, March 2017 (Christopher Burris Dir.)
How I Feel
Commissioned by The New Black Fest, Hands Up, The CUNY Grad Center, December 2014
She Don’t Wanna Be Saved
Clubbed Thumb Summer Works, The Wild Project, 2017
Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Commissioned by 48 Hours in Harlem, August 2013
The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi
35th Samuel French OOB Theatre Festival, Theater Row, The Lion Theatre, August 2010 (Christopher Burris, Dir.)
PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 1 – National Playwriting Program (Co-Vice Chair)
Brooklyn College
The New Black Fest
National Black Theater of Harlem
Lark Playwright Development Center
Atlantic Theater Company
New Georges
Three Monos Ensemble (Founder and Co-Artistic Director) Variations Theatre Group
Liberation Theater
NYMadness
Working Theater
Clubbed Thumb
The Fire This Time Festival
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
PLAYWRIGHT
PRODUCTIONS:
Traditional - The Other Plays, TBTB, ART New York, March 2017
* Manhood - National Black Theatre, February 2017
When We Wake Up Dead - Brooklyn College New Workshop Theatre, March 2016
The Magic Inside - FETE, Abingdon Theater Company, March 2016
Are You Not Entertained? - Bring a Weasel Festival, CSC September 2013
Where the Sun Don’t Shine - 48 hours in Harlem, HSA, August 2013
Within Untainted Wombs - The Fire This Time Festival, Kraine Theater, Feb. 2013
A Shadow with no Form - JACK, July 2012
The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi. - Samuel French OOB Festival, Theatre Row, Aug. 2010
*workshop production
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING.
blooms by a.k. payne Take Ten Virtual play festival, Theater Masters 2021
The Shrine: by Rudi Golben
The Only Thing... by Thaddeus McCants
Every Man’s Memorial by Maria Smith
A and Bea by Tanya Everett BC Weasel Festival, The Public Theater, 2019
Rebellious Rhymes... by Nsangou Njikam Keen Teens Festival, Theatre Row, 2019
Maxine’s by Craig “Mums” Grant Taproot Festival, The Wild Project, 2016
“9” by Andre J. Smith Taproot Festival, The Wild Project, 2016
A Military Habit by Aziza D. Barnes The Fire This Time Festival, 2015
The Music of Our Kind by Nkosi Nkululeko Conscious Language, 2015
Love, Redefined by Aziza D. Barnes Poetic Theater, 2014
Chalk by Amina Henry Tiny Theater Festival, The Brick Theater, 2012
READINGS
Gwenevere by Isaiah Reaves Iowa New Play Festival 2021
ReDefintion by Nsangou Njikam JAG Fest, Briggs Opera House 2018
Breathe by Javon Johnson BareNaked Reading Series, Barefoot Theatre, 2017
Blks by Aziza D. Barnes Fire This Time Festival 2016/ Playwrights Horizons 2014
ACTING – THEATRE
Reggie Gentrified by Levy Lee Simon. (Dir. Russell G. Jones) National Black Theatre, 2018
Paul Coping Mechanism by Lori Minor. (Dir. Oneke Cummings) The Dramatists Guild, 2018
Jean Toomer The Art of Desire by Michael Cristofer. (Dir. Francisco Solorzano) Actors Studio, 2017
Self Hands Up 7 Playwrights 7 Testaments- The Red Door Project, 2016
# A Beautiful Day in November... by Kate Benson. (Dir. Sunday Evans) Dixon Place, 2014
Tyson/Ali/ Tyson vs Ali by Reid Farrington and Frank Boudreaux. (Dir. Reid Farrington) 3LD, 2014
Ensemble Kharm Kharms by Eliza Bent. (Dir. Eliza Bent) The Bushwick Starr, 2012
Marcus Beast: A Parable by J. Julian Christopher. (Dir. J. Julian Christopher) Cherry Lane, 2008
Ferdinand/ Caliban The Tempest Molloy Repertory, 2008
Bianca Taming of the Shrew Molloy Repertory, 2008
Pseudolus A Funny Thing Happened... Molloy Repertory, 2008
Bridegroom Blood Wedding Molloy Repertory, 2007
Daniel The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged Molloy Repertory, 2007
Moon The Real Inspector Hound Molloy Repertory, 2007