Camille Simone Thomas

Camille Simone Thomas

Camille Simone Thomas (she/her) is a Detroit-born Jamaican-American. She was a 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coalition Artivism fellow where her play “What We Deserve” premiered as a staged reading at MCC theatre. Her plays have been workshopped at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Sanguine Theatre Company, featured with The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, Dixon Place,...
Camille Simone Thomas (she/her) is a Detroit-born Jamaican-American. She was a 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coalition Artivism fellow where her play “What We Deserve” premiered as a staged reading at MCC theatre. Her plays have been workshopped at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Sanguine Theatre Company, featured with The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Workshop Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Barter Theatre Company, The National Women's Theatre Festival, Lime Arts Theatre Company, American Slavery Project, and Blackboard playwriting series. Her web series “Gro Up” premiered at the Academy Award qualifying Reel Sisters film festival and was also shown at the PanAfrican Film Festival and Martha’s Vineyard virtual film festival. She was a 2023 New Harmony Project finalist, 2023 Catskills Creative Residency finalist, a 2023 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalist and a 2022 Art House Inkubator Finalist. She’s an associate artist with the Sanguine Theatre company. She’s had fellowships with The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s DEAR fellowship and The Theatre Producers of Color.

Plays

  • Mud: or when things get messy and how we live with it by Camille Simone Thomas
    Cast: 
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: black mental health, Female Mental Health + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: black mental health, Female Mental Health, Mental Health, bi-polar, black
    After having a bi-polar disorder induced psychotic break, 19 year old Zuma is the newest resident in the psych ward of a hospital. While she struggles to come to terms with a previously unknown mental illness; her siblings point the blame at God, themselves, and each other. As she vacillates between clarity and chaos her siblings must come together and work through shame,secrets, and strife to discover what it...
    After having a bi-polar disorder induced psychotic break, 19 year old Zuma is the newest resident in the psych ward of a hospital. While she struggles to come to terms with a previously unknown mental illness; her siblings point the blame at God, themselves, and each other. As she vacillates between clarity and chaos her siblings must come together and work through shame,secrets, and strife to discover what it really means to be a family.
  • At God's Back by Camille Simone Thomas
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, fantasy
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    Keyword: Jamaican, Caribbean + 3 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy
    Keyword: Jamaican, Caribbean, black, women, spirituality
    When Iylan returns to her hometown with her fiancé to help plan her grandmother’s funeral, she is surprised by what she discovers. She learns of her grandmother's deep involvement with the mystic practice of Obeah -- and of a vow she had made to protect a young girl in the neighborhood who went missing. Afro-Caribbean spirituality and cultural commitments converge as Iylan must ask herself how far she will...
    When Iylan returns to her hometown with her fiancé to help plan her grandmother’s funeral, she is surprised by what she discovers. She learns of her grandmother's deep involvement with the mystic practice of Obeah -- and of a vow she had made to protect a young girl in the neighborhood who went missing. Afro-Caribbean spirituality and cultural commitments converge as Iylan must ask herself how far she will go to deliver on her grandmother's legacy.