Vinecia Coleman

Vinecia Coleman is a playwright and actor based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose artistic aim as a writer is to tell stories that focus on the Black female experience. She was awarded the Playwrights' Center's 2025-2027 Many Voices Fellowship and was named as a 2025 Ojai Playwright Conference finalist. Her plays have been developed at the Great Plains Theatre Commons Conference, Boise Contemporary Theatre’s BIPOC Playwright Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, and others. Her play Christiana Lysistrata had its 2024 premiere at Main Street Players (Miami, FL), and her play Café Au Lait will have its premiere at History Theatre (St Paul, MN) in 2027. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing and Directing from the University of Idaho.

Vinecia Coleman is a playwright and actor based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose artistic aim as a writer is to tell stories that focus on the Black female experience. She was awarded the Playwrights' Center's 2025-2027 Many Voices Fellowship and was named as a 2025 Ojai Playwright Conference finalist. Her plays have been developed at the Great Plains Theatre Commons Conference, Boise Contemporary Theatre’s BIPOC Playwright Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, and others. Her play Christiana Lysistrata had its 2024 premiere at Main Street Players (Miami, FL), and her play Café Au Lait will have its premiere at History Theatre (St Paul, MN) in 2027. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing and Directing from the University of Idaho.

Scripts

Café Au Lait

by Vinecia Coleman

Cast Size
6—15
Genre
biography,
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
political

Nellie Francis, a white-passing, Black Suffragist from St. Paul in the 1920s, appeals to "History" to have her story forever etched in his book. In order to see her mission through, there is one rule she cannot break: thou shalt not be mean to History. This comedic play explores the Minnesota Suffrage movement through the eyes of Black women.

Nellie Francis, a white-passing, Black Suffragist from St. Paul in the 1920s, appeals to "History" to have her story forever etched in his book. In order to see her mission through, there is one rule she cannot break: thou shalt not be mean to History. This comedic play explores the Minnesota Suffrage movement through the eyes of Black women.

Being Black Outside

by Vinecia Coleman

5
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

Vee and Niecy return to their childhood home after their mother dies, just in time for the end of the world--the Apocalypse--to begin. While remembering the past and debating the future, the sisters meet their mother's neighbor (a well-meaning White woman) and are forced to contend with what it means to be Black...outside. This comedic play takes a look at the absurdities and realities of living in a world that...

Vee and Niecy return to their childhood home after their mother dies, just in time for the end of the world--the Apocalypse--to begin. While remembering the past and debating the future, the sisters meet their mother's neighbor (a well-meaning White woman) and are forced to contend with what it means to be Black...outside. This comedic play takes a look at the absurdities and realities of living in a world that centers whiteness.

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Christiana Lysistrata

by Vinecia Coleman

Cast Size
10—25
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
faith-based,
farce,
period,
political,
satire

Living in medieval times, Lysistrata hopes to stop an upcoming Crusade battle that the men in her village seem dead set on. After hearing God’s voice, Lysistrata uses the bible (the very thing the men use to oppress the women) to get all of the women in her village to stop having sex. This comedy has a modern sensibility and can be performed by an all female-identifying/non-binary cast.

Living in medieval times, Lysistrata hopes to stop an upcoming Crusade battle that the men in her village seem dead set on. After hearing God’s voice, Lysistrata uses the bible (the very thing the men use to oppress the women) to get all of the women in her village to stop having sex. This comedy has a modern sensibility and can be performed by an all female-identifying/non-binary cast.

Two Minutes After Dawn

by Vinecia Coleman

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
experimental

Over the past year and a half, life has become nearly out of control for Sam. She's buried under work, saving to buy a house, and trying her best to keep her marriage together. To top it all off, she's taken in her contentious mother, who has been diagnosed with dementia. Sam longs to be free of her burdens. Will she get the future she's always dreamed of or will she be forced to stand face-to-face with...

Over the past year and a half, life has become nearly out of control for Sam. She's buried under work, saving to buy a house, and trying her best to keep her marriage together. To top it all off, she's taken in her contentious mother, who has been diagnosed with dementia. Sam longs to be free of her burdens. Will she get the future she's always dreamed of or will she be forced to stand face-to-face with something she never saw coming: her present?

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The Red Pen

by Vinecia Coleman

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
drama

Two couples (one black, one white), who are old friends, must come together when one of their children calls the other a racial slur. In doing so, they realize that the issue is much bigger than the children, and if there is any chance of moving forward, they must deal with their own pasts.

Two couples (one black, one white), who are old friends, must come together when one of their children calls the other a racial slur. In doing so, they realize that the issue is much bigger than the children, and if there is any chance of moving forward, they must deal with their own pasts.

Home (The Place Where My Stuff Resides)

by Vinecia Coleman

Cast Size
5—9
Genre
drama

A woman seeks help from her therapist when she suspects her husband is cheating on her. By talking through all the possible scenarios, she discovers the part she may have played in the demise of her marriage.

A woman seeks help from her therapist when she suspects her husband is cheating on her. By talking through all the possible scenarios, she discovers the part she may have played in the demise of her marriage.

But What Am I?

by Vinecia Coleman

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

On the eve of preparing the eulogy for his father, a beloved and respected pastor in the community, a man must deal with his father's past mistakes while he confronts his own demons.

On the eve of preparing the eulogy for his father, a beloved and respected pastor in the community, a man must deal with his father's past mistakes while he confronts his own demons.