Stage

Theatre is the foundation of my artistic practice. My plays confront belief systems, power structures, and emotional inheritance through bold characters and uncompromising storytelling. Below are just a few of my award-winning plays.

Welcome to the Blue Swan

A Full-Length play

Jimmy Earl Brown and his entourage at the Blue Swan, a hole-in-the-wall lounge in St. Louis, Missouri, ready themselves for a championship dart game with four grand on the line. But when Sugar, a recently released ex-convict, gets hired as an exotic dancer, darts aren’t the only games being played. Trying to escape past traumas, Jimmy Earl must decide between holding on to a turbulent long-term relationship or leaving behind the only life he knows.

2025 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Semi-Finalist.

2022 KC Melting Pot New Play Festival Finalist.

2021 ScreenCraft Stageplay Competition Finalist.

Only Some of God’s Children or Mississippi Magnolias

A Full-Length play 2026 Regional Premiere The Studio theatre Tierra Del Sol

Set two days after the 1963 March on Washington, John Malachi Curtis, and his best friend, William Cochise Brown, return home to Mississippi to unpack all of the emotions left over from the March, only to find John's son, Ezekiel, has been attacked during a sit-in protest. Betty, John's wife, wants to leave Mississippi for good but the promise of land and remnants of love makes John unwilling to do so. Only Some of God's Children or Mississippi Magnolias is a story of five different flowers just waiting to bloom.

2024 Williamstown Theatre Festival, Weissberger Award Finalist.

2023 Orlando Playfest Finalist.

2023 The Judith Royer Award for excellence in playwrighting Finalist.

2022 The Del Shores Foundation Writers Award Runner Up.

2022 American Blues Theatre Playwriting Award Finalist.

Chasing Gods

A Full-Length play

It’s summer 2016, and only three weeks have passed since the country witnessed the deadliest, recorded act of violence against the LGBTQ community. From the pulpit of Holy Ground Baptist Church, Pastor Deirdre Curtis condemns the victims which causes a whirlwind of emotions and strife for her family. Her husband, Immanuel, and their children, Elijah and Olivia, grapple with her rigid religious devotion and their own personal beliefs, which threatens to tear them apart. *Chasing Gods* offers a powerful exploration of "radical empathy" in the face of deep division.

2025 Orlando Playfest Finalist.

2017 NewYorkRep Workshop Production .