Marissa Joyce Stamps

New York City mother-daughter duo, Imara and Kal, are on a swamp tour on their New Orleans vacation. They find themselves led by a white captain on an all-Black boat of tourists. What are the odds?! In the murkiness of their 75-minute tour, Kal finds herself itching and her psyche morphing in a place full of contradictions and turns to the alligators and their leader—the mighty alligator, Elvis—for some clarity.

Upon receiving Madame Dieufely's running sneakers, childhood best friends Aaliyah and Eli go on an expedition of running and rest and descent from the Milky Way galaxy and beyond to The Final Destination where Mama She awaits them for something unknown.

Joelli and Darrell's San Diego vacation is detoured because of intense monsoons and they get trapped in the middle of Sedona, AZ. Amongst vortexes, strangers, and strange beings, Joelli finds herself on a desert quest that makes her question what's right in front of her.

“They be ghosts up in here…”
The mortal fear must be running high in the veins... Two men—two rivals—who, after holding out for years, finally come to a now abandoned boxing ring that their fathers, and their fathers' fathers, and so on and so forth fought in to fight for their lives and to claim themselves as the "greatest." In the midst of jabs and hooks, and crosses and uppercuts, they both find themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, figuring out who they are in relation to higher power.

Three, ragtag packs of kids from Far Roc in Kindergarten, 5th grade, and 8th grade get their
scooter s , and bikes and sneaker s and helmet s and elbow pads and knee pads ready for the school year' s coveted event—The Annual Walk-Bike-Skate-a-Thon. But, how can these poor lil kids stay safe from stranger danger (of all kinds ) as they grow in shifting parameters and obstacle courses?

When Nile surprises her younger siblings Omar and Chris with a weekend getaway to see their favorite rapper, plans change when daddy's rich kids Quincy, Leah, Adrian, and Hattie invite them into their hotel's penthouse suite during an intruder lockdown. Between hangovers, and getting high, and taking bubble baths, and watching the sunrise, Nile tries her best to keep her sibling hood held together as best she can.

-“It’s cold in here.
-I feel warm.
Like I’m being hugged or something? -No,
it’s cold like dead bodies.”

deadbodydeadbodydeadbody takes us in three cycles of day and night, 72 hours within the span of 80 minutes. There’s Rajiv’s clam chowder at 5am. There’s Danté’s daily prayer at 7am. There’s Rajiv’s hour-long shit. There’s Dante’s hour-long jog. There’s Dante’s 2 hours of restless sleep. And there’s Rajiv’s 5 hours of loneliness. It’s the things like these that make these men and then, of course, the two hours they spend pumping and boxing at the gym, the place where their lives intersect but they don’t even know who the other is.

And at the end of those merciless 72 hours, comes the phone call—the call that instigates the entire reason why the two decide to have their boxing bout in Blue Fire Burns the Hottest.

deadbodydeadbodydeadbody is a study of the preparation of greatness.

It’s Girls’ Night… In!… virtually…
Best friends Peri and Asher hesitantly agree to a video call with Alex and Erin, who want updates on everyone’s global pandemic goals. However, when Peri suggests she’s been sitting in stillness, it is suddenly disrupted. This is a play about what happens when we glitch internally and the process of accepting it.

Renelle is wrapped up in getting her Secret Santa's gift ready. In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, she has a conversation with herself about gift giving and air, and giving new breath.

In the middle of a rain shower, Quin comes to their usual spot to sketch and have a conversation with a loved one. But something pressing's been on their mind lately...