Deneen Reynolds-Knott

A particularly meddlesome ancestor is determined to find a soulmate for his living great-great granddaughter, to distract her from dating a man he deems “unworthy”. But the late mother of the “unworthy one” has plans of her own. The potential soulmate’s deceased kin want to know what’s in it for them. To connect the "destined" lovers, this meddlesome ancestor will have to overcome generational and philosophical divides to convince other forebears to either help him or get out of the way.

During a sunless winter in 1996, Ciara & Taryn, two young black women, connect & share their love of XScape & TLC, transforming a dorm room into their sanctuary on a predominantly white university campus. However, the stress of love, financial hardship, and persistent lack of privacy threaten to destroy it.

The Sun Porch Collective was a thriving wellness community centering the voices and bodies of black women.
Then they got cancelled.
What's better for morale than a mandatory professional development retreat?

In 1955, a black family travels by caravan on Route One from Harlem to visit their matriarch in Littleton, North Carolina. Knowing they were unlikely to be served by eateries along the way, the family prepared a feast placed in shoeboxes lined with tin foil. They’ve pulled over to picnic on the road’s shoulder. This is your invitation to join them.

Ava and Tim, a black couple, are on a date interrupted by news of unrest in Baltimore the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral. Ava and Tim grapple with differing feelings about the case. Ava reveals a past engagement to a white cop, detonating a night of accusations, interrogations and confessions.

A lonely grad student visits their undergraduate alma mater to see their college friends, a mix of other alums and current undergrads. Expectations of a happy reunion are challenged as the group grapples with differing views of the past and present. Inspired by discussions between students, faculty, and the playwright, PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE explores graduation as the ultimate test of college bonds as authentic or forced connections.

Rachelle prepares to become a "sandwich mom" balancing care for a newborn with looking after her father with progressive vision loss. In an effort to solve the puzzle of this new life, she joins forces with colleagues to form a workers-cooperatives in the face of overwhelming odds.

Two pregnant women navigate bedrest and broken expectations in a hospital's Antepartum Unit.

Yvette, a former model/student of the Ophelia Devore School of Modeling & Charm, is confronted with new ideas about beauty, blackness and womanhood, when her daughter, Nina, joins the National Black Feminist Organization in 1973.