Kacie Rogers

Two time NAACP Award winning actor/writer, Kacie Rogers, received her classical training at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. You can find Kacie on screen as the face of the new board game Disparity Trap as well as on episodes of several TV shows including Curb Your Enthusiasm and Grace & Frankie. Kacie has also had the opportunity of working with several prestigious theatre companies in the Los Angeles area including The Robey Theatre Co., The Road Theatre Co., Circle X, Theatre40, Theatricum Botanicum, Greenway Court, The Getty Villa, Sacred Fools Theatre Co., The Skylight Theatre, IAMA, Inkwell Theatre and The Fountain Theatre. She is a proud member of the Center Theater Group Community Storytellers and you can find her self written & performed short, Ol' Auntie...

Two time NAACP Award winning actor/writer, Kacie Rogers, received her classical training at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. You can find Kacie on screen as the face of the new board game Disparity Trap as well as on episodes of several TV shows including Curb Your Enthusiasm and Grace & Frankie. Kacie has also had the opportunity of working with several prestigious theatre companies in the Los Angeles area including The Robey Theatre Co., The Road Theatre Co., Circle X, Theatre40, Theatricum Botanicum, Greenway Court, The Getty Villa, Sacred Fools Theatre Co., The Skylight Theatre, IAMA, Inkwell Theatre and The Fountain Theatre. She is a proud member of the Center Theater Group Community Storytellers and you can find her self written & performed short, Ol' Auntie Jemmie, streaming on their website. In 2021, Kacie was a recipient of the Shay Fellowship; a program aimed at cultivating the next generation of theater professionals by providing the highest standard of training through immersion in the art. Through the fellowship, Kacie wrote her one woman show, I Sell Windows, which just had its first workshop production in New York in December of 2022. Kacie's full length play, Oladele or The Forgotten Song, was selected for the IAMA New works Festival in 2022 and received its first public reading during the festival in September, directed by Nell Teare.

Scripts

Oladele or The Forgotten Song

by Kacie Rogers

Cast Size

6

Genre

drama,

fable/folktale,

immersive,

movement/physical,

musical,

period,

tragedy,

verse

What if Shakespeare were a Black woman? What stories would he have told and how would he have told them differently? In my own Superman: Red Sun-like exploration, we crash land in Nigeria in the year 1801. We join a family who loves fiercely, for better or for worse. We meet an innocent young boy, Oladele, who loves to tell stories and believes that they are the only medicine for the human condition. Their life...

What if Shakespeare were a Black woman? What stories would he have told and how would he have told them differently? In my own Superman: Red Sun-like exploration, we crash land in Nigeria in the year 1801. We join a family who loves fiercely, for better or for worse. We meet an innocent young boy, Oladele, who loves to tell stories and believes that they are the only medicine for the human condition. Their life is vibrant – full of poetry, song, dance, and unfortunately, war. The latter eventually forces the matriarch of our story to make the hardest decision of her life – she must either stay with her son and risk him being killed or she can send him away by selling him into slavery and pray that he survives.

She sends him away.

Oladele arrives in America and is met with brutality, speech that falls in different patterns, false friendship, and true love. The land is foreign to him, but eerily familiar to us. He grapples with who he is, who he wants to be, and who he must become. On Oladele’s journey of learning to survive on foreign soil the play begins to ask – what is the true cost of survival? Can the cost ever be too steep?

I Sell Windows

by Kacie Rogers

1

Cast Size

1

Genre

biography,

dark comedy,

experimental

A poetic exploration of grief through therapy, relationships, and a very very odd job -- selling windows.