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, 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, 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 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/dozen pounds of laundry, 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/dozen pounds of laundry, 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.

Other Paths to God

by Kelundra Smith

Cast Size
5—8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
faith-based

Seven days, 5 nurses, and $3 million vanished without a trace. The ICU nurses at Morey Medical Center don't need another complication between breakups, make-ups, adoptions, and way too many patients to see. But when federal dollars go missing, and fingers point in their direction, everyone's on their worst and most outrageous behavior. This wild ride through the lives of five resilient women in healthcare is...

Seven days, 5 nurses, and $3 million vanished without a trace. The ICU nurses at Morey Medical Center don't need another complication between breakups, make-ups, adoptions, and way too many patients to see. But when federal dollars go missing, and fingers point in their direction, everyone's on their worst and most outrageous behavior. This wild ride through the lives of five resilient women in healthcare is funny, poignant, and just the right amount of scandalous, while revealing that the path to healing and redemption is never a straight line.

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Monarchs

by Kelundra Smith

1
Cast Size
6—10
Genre
drama,
period

It’s the fall of 1935 Mae and John Monarch join millions of African Americans who are leaving sharecropping in the South for bigger, brighter horizons in the North just before their second baby is due. However, life in Chicago is not what they thought it would be, and when their teenage son gets in trouble back home in Mississippi, they feel the strain on their marriage and their pocketbooks. However, with the...

It’s the fall of 1935 Mae and John Monarch join millions of African Americans who are leaving sharecropping in the South for bigger, brighter horizons in the North just before their second baby is due. However, life in Chicago is not what they thought it would be, and when their teenage son gets in trouble back home in Mississippi, they feel the strain on their marriage and their pocketbooks. However, with the help of some well-meaning nosy neighbors they might just be okay. An ode to the Great Migration, will John and Mae hold steadfast to their dreams and each other, or will the harsh realities of a changing nation get the best of them?

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The Vote

by Kelundra Smith

Cast Size
9—12
Genre
drama,
period,
political,
satire

Reverend Charles McCall is always in a fight-- both with his son, C.J. over almost everything-- and for a seat in Georgia's new state senate. His wife Clara is trying to keep a lid on his vices, but a femme fatale hired by the opposition may be the opponent he never saw coming. Will he be able to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment and bring home a victory for the sharecroppers who are depending on him? Or, will the...

Reverend Charles McCall is always in a fight-- both with his son, C.J. over almost everything-- and for a seat in Georgia's new state senate. His wife Clara is trying to keep a lid on his vices, but a femme fatale hired by the opposition may be the opponent he never saw coming. Will he be able to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment and bring home a victory for the sharecroppers who are depending on him? Or, will the New South succumb to its old ways? "The Vote" is a play about the two things we hold dear: family and democracy.

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