Kelundra Smith

Kelundra Smith is a storyteller whose mission is to connect people to cultural experiences and each other. A Georgia native, she got into theatre because that’s where teachers put the kids who talk too much in class. As a playwright, she has a passion for southern historical narratives and writing stories about people who time has forgotten. She’s also a theater critic and arts journalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, American Theatre, Garden & Gun, The Bitter Southerner, ArtsATL, Atlanta Magazine, and elsewhere. Her long-term goals are to land on The New York Times bestseller list and open a late-night dessert restaurant, as well as have her plays travel around the world and be adapted for television.

Kelundra Smith is a storyteller whose mission is to connect people to cultural experiences and each other. A Georgia native, she got into theatre because that’s where teachers put the kids who talk too much in class. As a playwright, she has a passion for southern historical narratives and writing stories about people who time has forgotten. She’s also a theater critic and arts journalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, American Theatre, Garden & Gun, The Bitter Southerner, ArtsATL, Atlanta Magazine, and elsewhere. Her long-term goals are to land on The New York Times bestseller list and open a late-night dessert restaurant, as well as have her plays travel around the world and be adapted for television.

Scripts

The Vote

by Kelundra Smith

Cast Size
10—20
Genre
drama,
period,
political,
satire

Reverend Campbell McNeal is a pillar of his Coastal Georgia community, uniting poor Black and white farmers against illegal taxation. He's a rising star in the Republican Party and he's running for the Georgia State Senate. Two weeks before Election Day, President Ulysses S. Grant sends representatives from the Republican Party to ensure McNeal's victory. However, with the Old South trying to rise again, a femme...

Reverend Campbell McNeal is a pillar of his Coastal Georgia community, uniting poor Black and white farmers against illegal taxation. He's a rising star in the Republican Party and he's running for the Georgia State Senate. Two weeks before Election Day, President Ulysses S. Grant sends representatives from the Republican Party to ensure McNeal's victory. However, with the Old South trying to rise again, a femme fatale McNeal never sees coming, and trouble in his own home, he's in for the fight of his life.

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The Wash

by Kelundra Smith

2
Cast Size
6—10
Genre
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama

In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/week, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was one of the largest, successful interracial labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. "The Wash" offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won.

In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/week, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was one of the largest, successful interracial labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. "The Wash" offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won.

Younger

by Kelundra Smith

1
Cast Size
6—10
Genre
drama,
period

In this imagined prequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s "A Raisin in the Sun," we journey with the Younger family matriarch, Lena, from Jackson, Mississippi to Chicago during the Great Migration. When she reunites with Walter, Sr., she finds that life in the North is not as they thought it would be. Will they be able to hold steadfast to their dreams and each other, or will the harsh realities of a new place get the...

In this imagined prequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s "A Raisin in the Sun," we journey with the Younger family matriarch, Lena, from Jackson, Mississippi to Chicago during the Great Migration. When she reunites with Walter, Sr., she finds that life in the North is not as they thought it would be. Will they be able to hold steadfast to their dreams and each other, or will the harsh realities of a new place get the best of them?

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Other Paths to God

by Kelundra Smith

Cast Size
6—10
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

When I started writing this play I said I wanted it to feel like an episode of "Scandal." A group of nurses find themselves becoming the scapegoats when grant money goes missing at Morey Medical Center. Will they come together to free each other, or will they be swallowed by a system that's looking for someone to blame? It's a wild ride. 

When I started writing this play I said I wanted it to feel like an episode of "Scandal." A group of nurses find themselves becoming the scapegoats when grant money goes missing at Morey Medical Center. Will they come together to free each other, or will they be swallowed by a system that's looking for someone to blame? It's a wild ride.