THE WRATH OF CONNIE (a 2018 Eugene O'Neill Finalist) is a Front Page-like dark comedy taking place in 1991. The play revolves around beloved TV icon, African-American Connie Frederick, who had a television variety show in the '60s and '70s, but not much success since then. So the network hires a bunch of edgy, raunchy twenty-something mostly male writers to try and make Connie just as edgy and political and outrageous/offensive as they are. Connie clearly draws the line of comedy in a very different place than they do, and she draws the line between what is appropriate behavior between men and women in a very different place as well. The play is specifically set in the fall of 1991 right as Anita Hill testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee as to the inappropriate behavior of Clarence Thomas.