Vice Wheels (2022, Carnegie Mellon University)
Directed by Jasmine Roth
Dramaturgy by Anna Toutain
Cover by Anna Toutain
Drew Bos, Abiola Obatolu, Andy LeBuhn
Vice Wheels is the hottest game on the market! Race for your soul in the race for salvation. #GoJesus!
Don't get tripped by the tedious trials that are there to trick you. No no no. Just know your stakes, pump ya brakes, and everything will fall into place.
Rated E18+. Please read the fine print.
Accolades:
National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist (2024)
McNally New Works Incubator Semifinalist (2024)
Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting (2023)
Kennedy Center Distinguished Achievement for Lorraine Hansberry Award (2023)
Dream image crafted by Edward T. Morris
IMPOSTER’S EVE (Ten Minute Play)
Brent has his first day at a new job tomorrow but he can’t sleep. Maybe his brother can help? Pray for them.
Accolades:
Publication by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals (2023)
Link to purchase/license: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/s/95163/theater-masters-take-ten-vol-8
Theater Masters Take Ten Festival - Winner (2022)
BOUNTY ON OUR HEADS (A Choreopoem)
Bounty On Our Heads is a choreopoem about the loss, nurturing, celebration, and restoration of Black hair strands told through the eyes of misused agents and civilians subjected to societal and corporate pressures, as well as health issues. This is not part one, but it is one part, of a Series of Breakthroughs.
Accolades:
Bay Area Playwrights Festival - Semifinalist (2023)
KCACTF Region 2 Festival - One Act Play Reading Selection (2022)
2017, New Works Lab, University of California-Santa Barbara
Directed by Rebecca Wear
GANG SINES (Full Length Mathematical Hip Hop Play)
Carle and his best friend Lincoln live in a world where only math is the key to the great things that await. He comes across the Moscow Enigma, the oldest known math problem in history, and sees it as his way to elevate his life. However, when his old bully transfers to his school, he becomes tasked with confronting old demons and fights against himself to not spiral out of control. This mathematical hip hop tale addresses accountability and fear while also creating a call for action to the tech world and lack of people of color within that space.
Accolades:
FMM Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works - Longlist Prize (2022)
Bay Area Playwrights Festival - SemiFinalist (2021)
Kennedy Center Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award - 1st place winner (2018)
PLEASE PASS ON THE SYRUP (Ten Minute Play)
A woman and her son take a spontaneous road trip to go tree tapping so they can make their own syrup. All is well until their motives are questioned by a mourning townsperson.
Accolades:
KCACTF Region 2 Festival - Ten Minute Play Reading Selection & Planet Earth Award Recipient (2021)
2018, New Works Lab, University of California-Santa Barbara
ENAMORED WITH THE EPHEMERAL (One Act Play)
A pseudo-celebrity, Alton, is stripped of his luxuries following an altercation and dangerous behavior. He is given a chance to redeem himself when offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to play the charismatic and enigmatic Monsieur Ouest in a biopic. While Alton prepares for the role, his integrity is tested in an absurd world where suffering is commodified and invincibility is an illusion.