Works tagged with ‘drama’
NEW - The Comfort Team
Chandra Rose, an African American woman from New York City marries a Navy Commander and finds herself thrown head first into military life in Norfolk, Virginia. There she meets the wives of the officers and enlisted members of her husband’s battalion, the Riverines, who have been deployed to patrol the rivers in Iraq during the surge. A story about sacrifice, service and community, The Comfort Team focuses on the women left behind to tend to the home front while their husbands are away at war.
Written with a commission from the Virginia Stage Company’s American Soil Program with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Into the Fire
Set against the evocative and extreme landscape of the Alaskan wilderness, Into the Fire explores the boundaries between the personal and the political when a woman’s awakening throws a remote island community into chaos. A story about the search for identity in the last frontier, the play is peopled with characters living in isolation on the outer edges of America where landscape makes an indelible mark on the psyche and imagination, giving rise to personalities as enlarged and extreme as the place they inhabit. Described as “Magic Realism with an Alaskan twist” Into the Fire also explores betrayal, rebirth, and community.
Awards: L. Arnold Weissberger Award.; written in Mexico on a NEA International residency fellowship. Rhode Island winner of the Clauder Competition; finalist, National Play Award.
Published by Samuel French.
Development: National Playwright’s Conference (The O’Neill); Australian National Playwright’s Conference; New Plays Festival at Charlotte Rep; Urban Stages, NYC.
