Lenelle Moise

Lenelle Moïse (pronounced "moy-eez") wrote, composed, and co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Off Broadway drama EXPATRIATE. Her romantic comedy K-I-S-S-I-N-G won the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. She was the Spring 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at Ithaca College, the 2017 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and a Huntington Playwriting Fellow. She has received commissions, awards and/or development residencies from the Steinberg/ATCA committee, Hedgebrook, Astraea, Clark University, Northwestern University, UT Austin, and Women Center Stage at the Culture Project. Lenelle is an internationally touring solo performer and a widely anthologized poet. Her book HAITI GLASS was a won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature.

Lenelle Moïse (pronounced "moy-eez") wrote, composed, and co-starred in the critically-acclaimed Off Broadway drama EXPATRIATE. Her romantic comedy K-I-S-S-I-N-G won the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. She was the Spring 2018 Playwright-in-Residence at Ithaca College, the 2017 Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and a Huntington Playwriting Fellow. She has received commissions, awards and/or development residencies from the Steinberg/ATCA committee, Hedgebrook, Astraea, Clark University, Northwestern University, UT Austin, and Women Center Stage at the Culture Project. Lenelle is an internationally touring solo performer and a widely anthologized poet. Her book HAITI GLASS was a won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature.

Scripts

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

by Lenelle Moise

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

Lala makes fine art, and she's ready to find her muse! A sweet and sticky summer inspires her to romance Dani, a budding feminist⏤and Albert, his slick-talking twin. Part coming-of-age tale and part laugh-out-loud love spell, K-I-S-S-I-N-G is a two-act ode to young Americans.

Winner of the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script.
Finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Lala makes fine art, and she's ready to find her muse! A sweet and sticky summer inspires her to romance Dani, a budding feminist⏤and Albert, his slick-talking twin. Part coming-of-age tale and part laugh-out-loud love spell, K-I-S-S-I-N-G is a two-act ode to young Americans.

Winner of the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script.
Finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Taurus Tornado

by Lenelle Moise

1
Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

A dignified Black Appalachian woman recalls her ancestry, in defense of her home. (Commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage for MY AMERICA, fifty monologues exploring American identity and culture, filmed by Hal Hartley’s Possible Films.)

A dignified Black Appalachian woman recalls her ancestry, in defense of her home. (Commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage for MY AMERICA, fifty monologues exploring American identity and culture, filmed by Hal Hartley’s Possible Films.)

Merit

by Lenelle Moise

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Winner of the Ruby Prize and featured on The Kilroys List, MERIT follows Mona, the only Black student (and Southerner) in her prestigious graduate fiction program in rural Vermont. When she befriends distinguished professor Richard Sive—a demanding divorcee with fatigued sex appeal—the two are called to strike a balance between desire and professionalism. Ferocity and hilarity ensue.

Winner of the Ruby Prize and featured on The Kilroys List, MERIT follows Mona, the only Black student (and Southerner) in her prestigious graduate fiction program in rural Vermont. When she befriends distinguished professor Richard Sive—a demanding divorcee with fatigued sex appeal—the two are called to strike a balance between desire and professionalism. Ferocity and hilarity ensue.

The Many Faces of Nia

by Lenelle Moise

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
period,
political,
satire,
tragedy

Jewish housewife Beth discovers that her son David is dating a Black woman. Her fears and prejudices grow into a series of outlandish apparitions. When the real Nia comes to dinner, invasive neighbors and family revelations muddle Beth’s attempt to be a good hostess. Set in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, THE MANY FACES OF NIA is a laugh-out-loud tragedy about fantasy, stereotypes, motherhood, and racial tension.

Jewish housewife Beth discovers that her son David is dating a Black woman. Her fears and prejudices grow into a series of outlandish apparitions. When the real Nia comes to dinner, invasive neighbors and family revelations muddle Beth’s attempt to be a good hostess. Set in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, THE MANY FACES OF NIA is a laugh-out-loud tragedy about fantasy, stereotypes, motherhood, and racial tension.