Boogie Cousins in 1.8 Seconds

by Michael Tuton

WINNER: Best of Playground, 2023 (Dir. Rondrell McCormick)
FINALIST: Samuel French OOB Festival 2025 (Dir. Kayla Amani)

(10-15 min) Boogie Cousins has always been his team's best player and his own worst enemy...but now he's been labelled a "distressed asset" by management. How can a man like Boogie change how he moves after all these years?

WINNER: Best of Playground, 2023 (Dir. Rondrell McCormick)
FINALIST: Samuel French OOB Festival 2025 (Dir. Kayla Amani)

(10-15 min) Boogie Cousins has always been his team's best player and his own worst enemy...but now he's been labelled a "distressed asset" by management. How can a man like Boogie change how he moves after all these years?

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  • Leah Roth Barsanti: Boogie Cousins in 1.8 Seconds by Michael Tuton
    “

    God I love a sports play, and this one hits. A love letter to basketball in general and the Golden State Warriors in particular, it takes a one season player and a movement coach and imagines a conversation that, had it happened, might have changed everything. It also asks what we sacrifice for, and gain from, athletic greatness.

    God I love a sports play, and this one hits. A love letter to basketball in general and the Golden State Warriors in particular, it takes a one season player and a movement coach and imagines a conversation that, had it happened, might have changed everything. It also asks what we sacrifice for, and gain from, athletic greatness.

    ”
  • Jonathan Josephson: Boogie Cousins in 1.8 Seconds by Michael Tuton
    “

    At once a deepcut love letter to basketball and those who love it and play it well, and a thoughtful meditation on the psychology of greatness and achievement.

    At once a deepcut love letter to basketball and those who love it and play it well, and a thoughtful meditation on the psychology of greatness and achievement.

    ”
DEMARCUS “BOOGIE” COUSINS
30ish. Black. Cisgender Male. Over 6’6”. Ideally bald. Fit. TALL. Intimidating. In warmups. Rage only sharpens his intelligence. This is his superpower. And his greatest vulnerability.


LYNN ISFINE
40-60ish. Black. Cisgender Male. Start with the sweater that most says “Therapist Grandpa,” cast to fill it. Ideally, Lynn is a full foot shorter than Boogie.

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