Vincent Terrell Durham

A liberal white couple hosts a cocktail party for their Black neighbors in their newly renovated Harlem brownstone. A well-intentioned night of community devolves into intense debates, pointed accusations, and a shocking revelation of implicit bias.

It’s the summer of 1958 and Mrs. Sarah Woods is on a mission from the state. The state social worker has been visiting colored families in a small rural North Carolina community. Cora Lee Burden is the latest to receive an appointment notice from Mrs. Woods. The sixty-four-year-old grandmother of a mentally challenged child has no idea what a white social worker from the government would want with her family. But being a colored woman of the south she knows the visit is a call for caution.

An unexpected delivery forces a son to confront childhood memories and the pain left by his absentee father.

A Short Play - A couple take an Uber ride home from the hospital with their newborn son only to take a detour off into the future.

A Short Play - 5 friends gather to welcome in the new year and share resolutions on how to survive another 365 days of being Black in America.

A Short Play - 5 Black women recount the deaths of their sons over the course of several decades.

Vol. 1 – A Post Racial America is a theatrical reminder of a broken promise. A reminder that the emergency brake on the Post Racial America train, conducted by Barack Hussein Obama, has been pulled, lurching a train full of hopeful Black Americans back to a time when 46.09% of voters thought America was great. Vol. 1 – A Post Racial America will ask theatergoers to bear witness as we disembark the stalled train and drag her back from 1619 to 2020 and reclaim the promise of a Post Racial America.

A Short Play - A woman confronts a homeless man rummaging through her trash. She quickly discovers how much her trash reveals about herself.

A Short Play - Two years after the death of their teenage son, Diane and Matthew Peterson meet the man who received his heart.

A Short Play - A NOW organizer arrives at a home in 1973 Massapequa, Long Island with an invitation to liberate the long-suffering housewife inside. She mistakes the Black housekeeper as the lady of the house.

A Short Play - Alberta Mae simply needs to purchase a new pair of Easter shoes for her growing daughter. Jim Crow laws of 1962 Mississippi won't allow colored children to try shoes on beforehand, so mothers have made the practice of tracing their child's foot on brown butcher paper and presenting it at the shoe store in exchange for a new pair of shoes. This Easter that practice will be tested.

A Short Play. Darryl and Richard have just leased their first apartment together as a couple. Darryl is out to his family, but Richard is still passing Darryl off as his best friend. A surprise visit from Richard's mother leaves the two men with a decision to make.

A Short Play - Darryl and Richard are putting a final end to their relationship, after Richard's horrible coming out attempt at his mother's annual Christmas Eve dinner party.

A Short Play - Darryl and Richard are a couple of two years. Darryl is out to his family but Richard is still passing Darryl off as his best friend. This year Darryl wants Richard to come out during the annual Christmas Eve dinner party.