Committed

COMMITTED is a gripping tale of resistance and resilience during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War eras. When a young boy's activist mother is unjustly institutionalized in 1963, his own protest five years later becomes the key to her freedom. Blending personal story with history, Committed is a powerful reflection on justice, courage, and the fight for change.

COMMITTED is a gripping tale of resistance and resilience during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War eras. When a young boy's activist mother is unjustly institutionalized in 1963, his own protest five years later becomes the key to her freedom. Blending personal story with history, Committed is a powerful reflection on justice, courage, and the fight for change.

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  • Seth Rozin: Committed

    This is a very compelling and refreshingly theatrical story about people we don't tend to hear about in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Based on the playwright's own life growing up with a mother who became an activist, COMMITTED is at once important for what it reveals from a historical perspective, but also a story that illuminates the special bond between a mother, who suffers through several personal, physical and political calamities, and her devoted son, who is determined to support and honor her.

    This is a very compelling and refreshingly theatrical story about people we don't tend to hear about in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Based on the playwright's own life growing up with a mother who became an activist, COMMITTED is at once important for what it reveals from a historical perspective, but also a story that illuminates the special bond between a mother, who suffers through several personal, physical and political calamities, and her devoted son, who is determined to support and honor her.

ROSIE: White female, 40s
STORYTELLER, White male, 70's. (Narrator)
JOHN, White male, 40s (double with BERRIGAN)
MRS FULLBRIGHT: Black female, 30-60
JOE: Rosie's son. White male, teen
REVEREND DUNN: White male, 50s
CHIEF BECKETT: White male, 40s
DANIEL BERRIGAN, SJ: 40s, Jesuit priest
SENATOR E. MELVIN PORTER: Black male. 30s
JUDGE HAROLD THEUS: White male, 40s
MAYOR ELDON LAWSON: White male, 40s

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Broom Street Theatre, Madison, WI, Year 2026
  • Type Reading, Organization Ubiquitous Players, Chicago, Year 2022
  • Type Workshop, Organization Dramatists Guild Institute online workshop, Year 2021
  • Type Reading, Organization Dramatists Guild - End of Play Virtual Reading, Year 2021
  • Type Reading, Organization Oklahoma Scholars Leadership Program, Year 2021

Awards

  • Prism Theatre Residency
    Create Theater
    Finalist
    2024
  • Tragic Play Competition
    Risk Theatre
    Semi-Finalist
    2023
  • Wisconsin Wrights
    Forward Theatre
    Finalist
    2022
  • 2022 Season
    Negro Ensemble Company of New York
    Finalist
    2022