Renee´ Flemings

Renee´ Flemings

Renee´ Flemings
Renee.flemings01@gmail.com

Renee’ Flemings has written over forty plays, long and short form. Her play Strange Weather has had readings at Roundabout Theatre Company, as well as garnering various awards through New Federal Theatre, The New Professional Theatre’s New Writers Festival, Centenary Theatre’s Women’s Playwrights Festival and Run of the Mill Theatre’s New Plays...
Renee´ Flemings
Renee.flemings01@gmail.com

Renee’ Flemings has written over forty plays, long and short form. Her play Strange Weather has had readings at Roundabout Theatre Company, as well as garnering various awards through New Federal Theatre, The New Professional Theatre’s New Writers Festival, Centenary Theatre’s Women’s Playwrights Festival and Run of the Mill Theatre’s New Plays Festival. Other plays include Daddy’s Home, Coyote Calls, Monsters, Second Hand Smoke, Legend, Scars (Sam French Finalist) and The Jam (Genesis Festival @ Crossroads Theatre). Renee’s plays have been produced by Metropolitan Playhouse, The Drilling Company, Spotlight On and Blue Diamond Productions as well as having productions in Australia, Japan and France. She was one of the original writers for the A Train Plays, completing a number of short plays and librettos while riding no the A train in Manhattan. The NAACP commissioned her play With All Deliberate Speed, a full- length work about the integration of Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. Renee’s most recent play, Render, is a one-act play exploring the collateral damage and healing process following a school shooting. Her first full- length libretto, is entitled Love Rose. Additionally, Renee´ has written and performed several solo shows including From the Front Porch, “…secrets…” and The Bible Belt. Publications include: Bounce & Roll (A Trains Plays Vol. 1), Bel Canto (Playing With Canons) and Rewind (Estrogenius Plays Collection- 2005). Renee´ graduated from Empire State College, a SUNY university in 2014, with a B.A. in Theatre.

Plays

  • Flight by Renee´ Flemings
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: biography, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: jazz, magical realism
    Genre: biography, drama, experimental
    Keyword: jazz, magical realism
    Flight is a short play inspired by the events surrounding Charlie Parker's first institutionalization in California.
  • With All Deliberate Speed by Renee´ Flemings
    Cast: 
    14–20
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: black, racism + 3 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, immersive, political, young audiences
    Keyword: black, racism, 20th century American history, community engagement, bravery
    With All Deliberate Speed is a multi-media telling of the story of The Little Rock Nine, a group of Black students who were integrated into the Arkansas public school system in the sixties. The furor that evolved due to the refusals of the white school system and leadership is Little Rock eventually led to the students needing to be escorted to school by the National Guard. It is a story of bravery and strength.
  • Rendered by Renee´ Flemings
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
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    Keyword: loss, quirky + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: loss, quirky, dark comedy
    In a beautiful park with tables and chairs, an oasis in a city, two people encounter each other. Kerry seemingly is there to annoy Jason then they realize they have a terrifying bond with each other. Both are healing from the same event, but in different ways.
  • The Jam by Renee´ Flemings
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: family, reconciliation + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: family, reconciliation, jazz, american race relations
    Set in NYC, and occurring within a year of 9/11 and the death of her estranged mother a young Black woman, Effie receives a call from a man claiming to be her father, whom she has never met. On her deathbed her mother has finally given her one clue about her father and that is that he is white and "he took what he wanted from her." The morning "The Jam" begins Effie battles with the...
    Set in NYC, and occurring within a year of 9/11 and the death of her estranged mother a young Black woman, Effie receives a call from a man claiming to be her father, whom she has never met. On her deathbed her mother has finally given her one clue about her father and that is that he is white and "he took what he wanted from her." The morning "The Jam" begins Effie battles with the memories and pain from her past as she and her lover, Warren, a white male attempt to navigate and reconcile who she is with who this man, Joseph, her father is and what her mother, Juliette, was to her. The title is a reference to the music that both she and Warren play as musicians struggling in Manhattan.