Inda Craig-Galván

NEW! FULL LENGTH - A rising superstar writer, Leslie finds herself uniquely-positioned as an African-American
woman on the cusp of all her dreams coming true. When a man from her past shows up at
her home, all that she's worked for is in jeopardy, and Leslie's future is out of her hands --
tied to a secret she shares with this outsider. This play explores ownership of story and
asks who has the right to tell a Black story?

FULL-LENGTH: A suburban couple hosts a welcome-to-the-neighborhood dinner party for their new neighbors — a couple recently (forcibly) relocated from Chicago's roughest housing project — and it's anything but welcoming. A dark intra-racial comedy about reverse gentrification and how we deal with the "other" when the other looks just like us.

Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century abolitionist, entrepreneur, real estate tycoon, and the first African-American millionaire... and you’ve probably never heard of her. PLEASANT uses contemporary music, humor, and unconventional storytelling to explore the life of this self-described “capitalist by profession” who used her role as a humble domestic worker to cloak her badassery. Scandals, rumors, and one angry Karen threatened to bury her legacy, while Pleasant seeks to unearth the invaluable and lasting accomplishments of this unsung woman.

FULL-LENGTH Veralynn Jackson knows hair, she knows her neighborhood, and she also knows that the invention of the Jheri Curl marks the end of the world. When she takes a job in Mr. Kim’s Korean-owned Black beauty supply store and the posters start talking to her, Veralynn might finally come to know her true calling.

NEW! FULL-LENGTH - In a modern-day Black farming community, a big-animal veterinarian makes a house call on a pregnant mare. During the ultrasound, she discovers an entire ship filled with enslaved people inside the horse’s uterus. And one enslaved man sees her, too. Is she imagining it all? Can she get them out? And if she does, what happens to them then?

FULL-LENGTH: Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of her son by a White cop. Rather than herald the "movement," Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?

FULL-LENGTH A modern-day farce centering POC. Who does that? What We Pay For Likes transports the squabbling, reputation-obsessed aristocrats of Madrid from Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Los Empeños de un Engaño (translated by Diversifying the Classics as What We Owe Our Lies) to a Calabasas populated by social media influencers whose lives revolve around their brands, likes, and views. When a handsome stranger comes to town, their relationships IRL turn out to be much more complicated than their polished and curated profiles suggest.

FULL-LENGTH: When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play, first drafted in workshop with the Humanitas Play L.A. Prize, explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens when there's no more outside space for the growing monster that is American racism?

FULL-LENGTH: When 70s film prom queen Carrie is your role model, your adolescence must really suck. Will Lanny grow into a well-adjusted adult who can forgive her mother's many faults? Or will she burn the whole town to the ground with telekinetic powers? Well, a girl can dream, can't she? A play full of good music, bad memories, and the hope for a better Scott Baio.

5-MINUTE: The Rona has us all rethinking things: the importance of maintaining your norm v. indulging in breakfast cookies and day drinking.

10-MINUTE: A couple deals with the anniversary of the saddest moment of their lives, in the happiest place on earth.

10-MINUTE: A woman and man fall in love, thanks to a Tinder match. Little do they know they just happen to be lifelong rival crime lords. "The Shop Around the Corner" meets 70s blaxploitation. Because.

ONE-ACT TYA: A troubled teen engages in one final high school debate, in which the winner gets to live.

ONE-ACT TYA: Everyone has had it with Travis and his tall tales—his teachers, his schoolmates, even his mom. When Travis is given time off (aka school suspension), the park becomes his school-away-from-school. He has everything he needs: books, calculator, a dragon. Dragon?! How can this notorious fibber get anyone to believe him? Based on the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, this story of a boy and his dragon is told with humor… and with a much happier ending.