Andrew Lee Creech

*In Development*

FULL LENGTH - When her work is appropriated, content creator, Bellamy, goes on a spiritual journey, connecting four women across time as they fight to keep their family heirlooms and history from falling into the wrong hands. Stitching together 160 years of ancestral memory, The Quilted Heart weaves a modern tale of legacy, survival, and the things we pass down.

This play is part of a planned nine-play, multi-century-spanning cycle exploring the lives of Black Americans in pivotal moments of American history.

*SCRIPT HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR PUBLISHING*

FULL LENGTH - In the middle of the Great Recession, Morris Golden fights to save his marriage and keep the bank from foreclosing on his house. He might be able to pull it off if he could just get this stubborn magical change machine to work. Golden (formerly titled "When We Rise") paints a vulnerable portrait of how we recover from devastating events, maintain hope during hopeless times, and fight to connect with one another in order to survive in a world in crisis.

This play is part of a planned nine-play, multi-century-spanning cycle exploring the lives of Black Americans in pivotal moments of American history.

FULL LENGTH - 1884, Texas. Ro (a Black domestic worker) and Prophet (a Black cowboy) are in love, and they dream of leaving the Bailey Family Ranch behind, and building a life together. But when the ranch prematurely falters, and the cowboys go on strike, Ro and Prophet are pulled in opposite directions as they fight to keep their vision of the future from crumbling to dust. Set at the tail end of the Cowboy Golden Age, Last Drive to Dodge examines race, love, and legacy in a time when everyone is scrambling for their piece of the American Dream.

This play is part of a planned nine-play, multi-century-spanning cycle exploring the lives of Black Americans in pivotal moments of American history.

*SCRIPT HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR PUBLISHING*

FULL LENGTH - As gentrification closes in on the Riverwood Park Apartments, its tenants are forced to reckon with a home that no longer holds. Teenagers Tel and Crunch chase hip-hop stardom, Lenard puts his faith in luck, and community warrior Dédra risks everything to keep both her neighborhood and herself from being erased, while Miss Penny weighs the comfort of laying down roots against the price of pulling them up. With futures uncertain and dreams on the line, Riverwood asks who is allowed to belong and at what cost, in an urgent, poetic portrait of ambition, community, and the fight for home.

*In Development*

FULL LENGTH - 1876. A quartet of organizers push to get Solomon Reed elected as the first Black mayor of Lochton, Louisiana. As they fight to gain the upper hand in the race, Representative James Franklin contends with a congressional body that has grown tired of federal hands in the South. With the looming Presidential election threatening to end Reconstruction and Lochton on the brink of violence, these unsung heroes come together and risk it all to demand that the nation lives up to its creed. Men of Mettle reflects on a time of hope and grapples with a future that almost was.

This play is part of a planned nine-play, multi-century-spanning cycle exploring the lives of Black Americans in pivotal moments of American history.

FULL LENGTH MUSICAL - If history is written by the winners, what does it look like when written by the losers? JOURNEY WEST! is a farcical, intersectional, re-imagining of the Lewis & Clark expedition, told from the perspective of the lesser known members of the Corps of Discovery. Half history lesson, half fantasy, this show brings a few laughs, a few feels, and lots of heart.