Raven Monroe

Raven Monroe

I'm a writer and actor with a BA in Theatre from UNC Charlotte and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts. I have made it my goal to create stories that send Black women and girls on epic adventures, to prove that Black girls can be just as brave, nerdy, adventurous, beautiful, and epic as anyone else. Diverse stories teach us to see each other as equals, and help diverse audiences...
I'm a writer and actor with a BA in Theatre from UNC Charlotte and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts. I have made it my goal to create stories that send Black women and girls on epic adventures, to prove that Black girls can be just as brave, nerdy, adventurous, beautiful, and epic as anyone else. Diverse stories teach us to see each other as equals, and help diverse audiences expand their imaginings of who they are allowed to be. I hope to be a creator who sparks that imagination in diverse audiences around the world.

Plays

  • A Fake, A Phony, A Dreamer by Raven Monroe
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, drama
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    Keyword: coming of age, black actors + 8 more
    Genre: biography, drama
    Keyword: coming of age, black actors, mixed identity, adoption, African adoption, American college students, about theater, LGBT characters, transracial adoption, diverse cast
    A play about identity. Adopted from Ethiopia when she was a baby, a young college student's search for her birth parents pushes her friends to search for their own identities, but in doing so, they uncover things about themselves and their friendship that challenges how they view themselves and each other.
  • Ama and Coltrane, Beware, Beware! by Raven Monroe
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: anti-black racism, racism + 8 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, horror
    Keyword: anti-black racism, racism, supernatural, avant-garde, siblings, horror, black lives matter, Police Brutality and Black Resilience, allegory, political allegory
    Two young Black people try to survive a night at home, while the Beasty, a dark force that preys on people like them, is on the loose.
  • Love & Justice and Other Fairy Tales by Raven Monroe
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, period + 2 more
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    Keyword: African American, African American women + 8 more
    Genre: drama, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: African American, African American women, American Racism, World War I, 1910s, interracial relationships, romance, Southern Black family, American South, American Southern history
    Just as the United States prepares to enter the Great War, a young Black girl in the rural South, a young Black girl dreams of more than life as a domestic. When she falls in love with the son of the wealthy white family her grandmother works for, she finds herself caught between a reality of racist violence and the refuge of the romantic fantasy she and her love have constructed for themselves. As the threat...
    Just as the United States prepares to enter the Great War, a young Black girl in the rural South, a young Black girl dreams of more than life as a domestic. When she falls in love with the son of the wealthy white family her grandmother works for, she finds herself caught between a reality of racist violence and the refuge of the romantic fantasy she and her love have constructed for themselves. As the threat of war abroad and racism at home become harder to ignore, she is forced to confront the question of love's power-- and what it's powerless against.