Alle Mims

Alle Mims

Alle Mims is a genderfluid Black artist living in Harlem, NY. Mims earned their BA in Drama from Texas Woman’s University (’16) and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University (’23) under the instruction of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. While at Columbia, they also studied early 20th century Black radical history.

Mims is currently a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group and a...
Alle Mims is a genderfluid Black artist living in Harlem, NY. Mims earned their BA in Drama from Texas Woman’s University (’16) and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University (’23) under the instruction of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. While at Columbia, they also studied early 20th century Black radical history.

Mims is currently a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference ('24). Mims was a finalist for the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, Ars Nova’s Play Group, the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellowship (’23) and Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series ('21). Mims was a semi-finalists for Queercat Procution’s Black Trans Artist Offering and Alter Theater Enseble’s Decolonization Stories Commission ('22). Mims' pilot, "The Queen's Crown," won WeScreenplay College Screenwriting Competition ('21).

Mims is currently commissioned by theGrio to write a narrative podcast about Dorothy West and her trip to Moscow in 1932. Mims was commissioned by Bishop Arts Theatre in Dallas as a part of the How To Be… Project, in which playwrights wrote short plays inspired by Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist. Mims co-wrote the book for ‘The Tree: An American Musical’ with 6 other Dallas playwrights as a commission for Imprint Theatreworks.

Plays

  • A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America as Told by Langston Hughes and Others by Alle Mims
    Cast: 
    7–11
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    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte, docudrama/historic, movement/physical, period, political, satire
    In 1932, a group of Harlem Renaissance artists, including Langston Hughes, sailed to the USSR to make a film about racial equality and workers rights. With the promise of expanded civil rights and a guaranteed good time on the Soviet's dime, the group set forth with dreams of stardom and revolution. Unfortunately, while the Soviet's are eager to use the Black artists to forward the cause of Communism...
    In 1932, a group of Harlem Renaissance artists, including Langston Hughes, sailed to the USSR to make a film about racial equality and workers rights. With the promise of expanded civil rights and a guaranteed good time on the Soviet's dime, the group set forth with dreams of stardom and revolution. Unfortunately, while the Soviet's are eager to use the Black artists to forward the cause of Communism around the world, they are not able to reconcile their ignorance with their ambition.
  • The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People Hosted by Angela Davis with Special Guest J. Edgar Hoover by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte + 6 more
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    Keyword: American civil rights activist, Black civil rights + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, commedia dell'arte, dark comedy, farce, movement/physical, parody/spoof, political, satire
    Keyword: American civil rights activist, Black civil rights, Black Panthers, black actors, puppet, Nixon, FBI, Cointelpro
    It's December 5th, 1969, and your favorite civil rights activist is back with another episode of The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People. Today, we have special guest J. Edgar Hoover to talk about FBI sanctioned raids, COINTELPRO, and the use of state violence to suppress the movement. I've also heard the director might bring along a special friend who may or may not have just won the...
    It's December 5th, 1969, and your favorite civil rights activist is back with another episode of The Commune of Mutual Aid and Education for the People. Today, we have special guest J. Edgar Hoover to talk about FBI sanctioned raids, COINTELPRO, and the use of state violence to suppress the movement. I've also heard the director might bring along a special friend who may or may not have just won the presidential election running on a platform Law and Order.

    In this Mr. Roger's Neighborhood parody, we will get a brief glimpse into the politics of late 60's as told by Angela Davis with small brain teasers, a puppet show and good old fashion slapstick comedy.
  • Happy Birthday to Me by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: happy endings for queer kids, happy endings for queers + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller, young audiences
    Keyword: happy endings for queer kids, happy endings for queers, queer, features LGBTQ character, LGBTQ, sleepover, teens, fourteen
    It's Chelsea's 14th birthday at midnight tonight, but until then, her older sister, Andrea is in charge. The two try to pass time while waiting for the rest of the sleepover guests to arrive. But when it's nearing midnight and no one has showed, Andrea suspects something else is going on.
  • Sally and Thomas by Alle Mims
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Race, slavery + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, parody/spoof, period, political, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: Race, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, sally hemmings, gender, challenge to power
    Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson are enjoying an evening in Monticello when Thomas offers Sally “anything your heart desires.” But he hesitates when Sally asks for the only thing she truly wants: her freedom. He’s the most powerful man in the country. She’s barely 3/5ths of a person. Will Sally become a free woman? Does Thomas really love her as much as he says? Can a person who is property consent?
  • Pink by Alle Mims
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: drama, political + 2 more
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    Keyword: addiction, meth + 2 more
    Genre: drama, political, radio drama, tragedy
    Keyword: addiction, meth, Recovery, Race
    Alex has been trapped in this trailer park for three days. It's also been three days since her boyfriend, Wade, went missing, and three days since she indulged in her latest addiction, meth. Her dad is less concerned about their missing roommate, and more worried about how they will afford rent without him pitching in. We follow this father/daughter duo through their weekend as they fight addiction,...
    Alex has been trapped in this trailer park for three days. It's also been three days since her boyfriend, Wade, went missing, and three days since she indulged in her latest addiction, meth. Her dad is less concerned about their missing roommate, and more worried about how they will afford rent without him pitching in. We follow this father/daughter duo through their weekend as they fight addiction, unexpected guests, the Texas heat, and each other, praying they'll have enough money to afford to live on.