Bringing to the stage forgotten but important black historical figures, like championship jockey Jimmy Winkfield, or crusading newsman Frank Stanley Sr., who helped persuade President Harry Truman to desegregate the US military. I’m striving to build a reputation in the theatre community as someone other theatre professionals want to work with, and to build an audience that comes to see my shows again and again because I always have something new. Nearly all my plays have multiethnic casts and nuanced handling of race in contentious social environments. I wrote and produced a courtroom comedy about reparations for American slavery. A drag queen is the hero of a musical I have in development. He goes undercover to disrupt the betting scam of a predatory gay man who seduces college athletes and blackmails them to throw games. I’m drawn to flawed, complex characters redeemed by high moral purpose, like a slutty pro wrestler who steals her sister’s husband but jeopardizes her career pushing improved status for women in the sport. Or treacherous gangbangers who foil a terrorist plot and set a hostage free. I believe that raw, cold-blooded plays in contemporary settings can grow our franchise because they interest urban audiences typically off the marketing grid of legitimate theatre.