Star Finch

Star Finch is currently the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Campo Santo and Crowded Fire Theater. She’s also an alumni of Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwright Initiative (2018-2022).
Her plays include H.O.M.E. [Hookers on Mars Eventually] and BONDAGE (Relentless Award honorable mention) and JOSEPHINE'S FEAST. She's contributed to various collaborative projects including, TheaterFirst’s PARTICIPANTS and Campo Santo’s ETHOS DE MASQUERADE. She’s held residencies in Crowded Fire’s R&D LAB and AlterTheater's Alter Lab.

Star Finch is currently the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Campo Santo and Crowded Fire Theater. She’s also an alumni of Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwright Initiative (2018-2022).
Her plays include H.O.M.E. [Hookers on Mars Eventually] and BONDAGE (Relentless Award honorable mention) and JOSEPHINE'S FEAST. She's contributed to various collaborative projects including, TheaterFirst’s PARTICIPANTS and Campo Santo’s ETHOS DE MASQUERADE. She’s held residencies in Crowded Fire’s R&D LAB and AlterTheater's Alter Lab.

Scripts

Shipping & Handling

by Star Finch

Cast Size
6—9
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fantasy,
movement/physical

Shipping & Handling is a project that explores how our humanity will be measured within the soon to be robotic-reality on the horizon; and it intentionally roots that interrogation in the Black Feminine gaze. The play is structured as an evening out at the theater told in reverse order: moving from an afterparty with actors, to the playwright’s experimental talkback, to the performance of the official ‘play’...

Shipping & Handling is a project that explores how our humanity will be measured within the soon to be robotic-reality on the horizon; and it intentionally roots that interrogation in the Black Feminine gaze. The play is structured as an evening out at the theater told in reverse order: moving from an afterparty with actors, to the playwright’s experimental talkback, to the performance of the official ‘play’ itself. In telling the story out of sequence, Shipping & Handling scrambles the built-in expectations of performative trauma around Black plays and undermines the dominant white gaze of theater itself. The first half of Shipping & Handling names the various poisons polluting Black creative expression and actively transmutes them; the second half illustrates the potential of a new world without the weight of said labor.

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Bondage

by Star Finch

5
Cast Size
5
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
period,
political

As Zuri transitions into puberty, she begins to reject the roles she'll be expected to play and instead conjures a new present to chart her own path into womanhood on an island plantation. Hierarchies of race and gender collide in this AfroSurreal tale of an enslaved girl who dares to follow her own instincts.

Bondage draws on Afro-Surrealism to create a new story about slavery.

As Zuri transitions into puberty, she begins to reject the roles she'll be expected to play and instead conjures a new present to chart her own path into womanhood on an island plantation. Hierarchies of race and gender collide in this AfroSurreal tale of an enslaved girl who dares to follow her own instincts.

Bondage draws on Afro-Surrealism to create a new story about slavery.

H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually)

by Star Finch

3
Cast Size
5—6
Genre
drama,
melodrama,
political,
science fiction

An AfroSurreal mix of sex workers, Tupac, and space travel: H.O.M.E. follows the journey of Chima- a prostitute on a mission to reconnect with the son she abandoned. She believes that she must tell him their story in person as a form of rebirth before he crosses into his twentieth birthday. It just so happens that her son now lives on Mars.

An AfroSurreal mix of sex workers, Tupac, and space travel: H.O.M.E. follows the journey of Chima- a prostitute on a mission to reconnect with the son she abandoned. She believes that she must tell him their story in person as a form of rebirth before he crosses into his twentieth birthday. It just so happens that her son now lives on Mars.

Participants/Take the Ticket (a monologue)

by Star Finch

3
Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy,
political

A Black woman playwright shares her truth.

A Black woman playwright shares her truth.