Beaufield Berry

Scripts

Buffalo Women

by Beaufield Berry

Cast Size
5—7
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
experimental,
movement/physical,
musical

Black women of the frontier in the days after Juneteenth finding a girl, faith, and their way.

Black women of the frontier in the days after Juneteenth finding a girl, faith, and their way.

Maxine's Monologue

by Beaufield Berry

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

A monologue pulled from the play Harrison (2014).

A monologue pulled from the play Harrison (2014).

RED SUMMER

by Beaufield Berry

2
Cast Size
6—10
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period,
political,
tragedy

September 28th is the 100 year anniversary of the lynching of Will Brown in Omaha, NE. The story is harrowing not only in its violence, but in its extreme inhumanity. Will Brown, a black man, was accused of raping a white woman, despite his severe physical impairments. This story is built around the Black migrants of the time, which Will was one of, and the person he was before he became a tragic headline.

September 28th is the 100 year anniversary of the lynching of Will Brown in Omaha, NE. The story is harrowing not only in its violence, but in its extreme inhumanity. Will Brown, a black man, was accused of raping a white woman, despite his severe physical impairments. This story is built around the Black migrants of the time, which Will was one of, and the person he was before he became a tragic headline.

In The Upper Room

by Beaufield Berry

9
Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

In the Upper Room introduces the Berrys, a multi-generational Black family living under one roof, in the 1970’s. The center of the family sphere is a controlling and mysterious matriarch named Rose, who has indoctrinated fear into every member of the house. Whose past and stories don’t add up. And who may be hiding dark secrets. Surrounding her core of chaos is her mild-mannered husband, Eddie. Her gregarious...

In the Upper Room introduces the Berrys, a multi-generational Black family living under one roof, in the 1970’s. The center of the family sphere is a controlling and mysterious matriarch named Rose, who has indoctrinated fear into every member of the house. Whose past and stories don’t add up. And who may be hiding dark secrets. Surrounding her core of chaos is her mild-mannered husband, Eddie. Her gregarious son, John, and his wife Janet trying to reclaim ownership in their own home. Two nosy in-laws who love to challenge her credibility and Yvette and Josephine, her teenage granddaughters who she loves sporting against each other, bringing issues of colorism and loyalty into the family dynamic. This is a play woven with story-telling, Black love, the occult, family secrets, sisterhood and the ties that bind us all.

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Happy Hour

by Beaufield Berry

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
political

Ned and Bart are brothers. They’ve never been particularly close or particularly competitive.

When Bart sets Ned up with a girl from work.

Things change.

Bart is competitive.

He is close. Too close.

And Ned learns more about his brother in one month than in their entire lives.

Ned and Bart are brothers. They’ve never been particularly close or particularly competitive.

When Bart sets Ned up with a girl from work.

Things change.

Bart is competitive.

He is close. Too close.

And Ned learns more about his brother in one month than in their entire lives.

He's Here

by Beaufield Berry

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

When a family loses a son in Afghanistan everyone’s roles are changed for good.

When a family loses a son in Afghanistan everyone’s roles are changed for good.

#Harrison

by Beaufield Berry

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
political

This is a very fictionalized version of my idea of what it’s like to live in a small town, ripped apart by racism and separated only by rose bushes.

This is a very fictionalized version of my idea of what it’s like to live in a small town, ripped apart by racism and separated only by rose bushes.

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