Camille Darby

Camille Darby

Born in Jamaica, Camille migrated to the Bronx at seven years old and soon discovered that writing was the best way for her to adjust to American culture. Theatre became her introduction to storytelling under the mentorship of playwright, Wendy Wasserstein through the Theatre Development Fund's Open Doors Program. Camille went on to study theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, then earned an M.F.A. in Dramatic...
Born in Jamaica, Camille migrated to the Bronx at seven years old and soon discovered that writing was the best way for her to adjust to American culture. Theatre became her introduction to storytelling under the mentorship of playwright, Wendy Wasserstein through the Theatre Development Fund's Open Doors Program. Camille went on to study theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, then earned an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her stories explore the complexities of human existence through the lens of black characters, and has been presented at Opera Front Compagnietheater, Amsterdam (The Magic Flute Revisited), the cell theatre, New York Stage & Film (Queen Nanny), 48 Hours in Harlem Festival (FREE), Classical Theatre of Harlem (The White Peacock), and Fire This Time Festival (Exodus, Lords Resistance). Camille is a 2019 Liberation Theatre Company fellow, a 2016 Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Juilliard School Finalist, 2015 Playwrights Center Jerome Many Voices Fellowship Finalist and a 2014-2015 Dramatists Guild fellow.

Plays

  • Lords Resistance by Camille Darby
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, secrets + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, secrets, love, Chicago, Uganda, soldiers, loss
    Pauline and Harvey Whitaker embody the American Dream: successful careers, daughter at Northwestern, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of Chicago. But between the decorated walls of the Whitaker home is a war, which becomes more destructive once their newly adopted teenage son, and former child solider, Okello, arrives from Uganda. Both a victim and perpetrator of Uganda’s civil unrest, which spans over two...
    Pauline and Harvey Whitaker embody the American Dream: successful careers, daughter at Northwestern, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of Chicago. But between the decorated walls of the Whitaker home is a war, which becomes more destructive once their newly adopted teenage son, and former child solider, Okello, arrives from Uganda. Both a victim and perpetrator of Uganda’s civil unrest, which spans over two decades, Okello finally gets the opportunity to replace the terrifying memories of his past with new beginnings. But it isn’t long before he discovers that the safety he seeks for his new life is nowhere within reach.
  • Knead Love by Camille Darby
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    Genre: drama, immersive + 1 more
    Genre: drama, immersive, science fiction
    Nina—a genius and Columbia University Biology major dropout—is close to figuring out how to escape life as she knows it on Earth. On a fateful Saturday night in her late mother's abandoned bakery in the Bronx, Nina has reached her final day of reckoning. But she is interrupted by a friend from the past who defines Nina's plan as nothing but a fancy, fluffed up scientific suicide. Knead Love follows...
    Nina—a genius and Columbia University Biology major dropout—is close to figuring out how to escape life as she knows it on Earth. On a fateful Saturday night in her late mother's abandoned bakery in the Bronx, Nina has reached her final day of reckoning. But she is interrupted by a friend from the past who defines Nina's plan as nothing but a fancy, fluffed up scientific suicide. Knead Love follows Nina’s attempt to exist in another realm, and her old friend, Marcus who tries to convince her that her plan won’t work. Better yet, he won’t let it. While Nina pushes Marcus to see past his own limitations, he tries to ground her in a reality that even he struggles with accepting. Nina’s thoughts and behavior are a melting pot of madness, while Marcus’s playing life by the book is just simply not enough. As the two collide, they discover that they both need/knead each other more than they ever imagined.
  • Queen Nanny by Camille Darby
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: abandonment, secrets + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: abandonment, secrets, Jamaica, Brooklyn
    Chris and Melanie are embarking on a new phase in their lives--becoming parents. But when Chris's estranged mother, Ida shows up on Chris and Melanie's Brooklyn doorstep after decades of being absent from her son's life, secrets of the past and present surface forcing this troubled family to change the course of their lives forever.