What is The Legacy Plays Project?
The Legacy Plays Project is a play cycle which uses specific moments in American history as touchstones to shine a light on untold stories, to examine the full breadth of my community’s humanity and rich history, to add more Black narratives and roles to the American theatre canon, and to reconcile the barrier between American history and Black history—reframing how we think about and teach history in general. When completed, the cycle will include nine plays, spanning from the end of American slavery and into the 21st century, with the goal of reconciling one history.
The plays currently in development:
Last Drive to Dodge
As the frontier shifts beneath their feet, a cowboy and a domestic worker risk everything for love, freedom, and a piece of the American Dream.
HISTORICAL WESTERN ROMANCE
Men of Mettle
In the final days of Reconstruction, a group of Black leaders wage a desperate fight to secure a future that could transform America forever.
HISTORICAL POLITICAL DRAMA
Golden
In the wake of the Great Recession, a struggling laundromat owner places his faith in a magical change machine that promises to turn spare change into second chances.
MAGICAL, HOPEFUL TRAGEDY
The Quilted Heart
A social media influencer goes on a spiritual journey, connecting four women across time as they fight to keep their family heirlooms and history from falling into the wrong hands.
EPIC, SPIRITUAL, MULTI-GENERATIONAL DRAMA