Crowds file into empty theatre seats to not only be entertained, but transported. Transported to a world which explores ways they can make sense of their reality. For me, one of these realities is that of a young, Southern, gay Black Millennial living in the Age of Trump who would go into a thermal shock if he was kept away from his cell phone for twenty-four hours. Influenced by the poetry of language, my playwriting seeks to answer the questions and concerns that I have for my contemporary reality by looking to the past, and somehow combining the two worlds together.

I am very passionate about Black issues and how they have evolved and, in some aspects, remained the same throughout history. I seek to deconstruct the boundaries that are present in the racial divides of America. I want to swim in the waters to explore both sides very carefully. Using the fairy tales, Shakespearean dramas and myths that I drank more than milk when I was growing up, I tend to put my characters in a particular fantastical setting and let them get “lost” for an hour and a half. By planting familiar pop culture signposts such as slang, hip hop and tropes from film/television, my characters learn to find their way back to the contemporary world that they know, but with a much deeper knowledge of it and themselves.