Andre returns home expecting a graduation party only to run face first into his unreconciled past and discovering that his mother (Maxine) is missing. In a flashback, Andre recounts coming out to his mother but is interrupted by his sister (Angie) who wants him to detect if her husband is gay because as children Andre had prophetic visions.  In a vision he sees his ancestors and sits down with them for a game of Spades. Through this Andre finds his mother and comes to the realization about himself and why he has been drawn to self-destruction. 

• Cast Size: 5M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s 1944 in the month of June during World War II.  Michael Crawler is an African-American pilot for the Army Air Corps.  After a fierce battle in the sky, he crash lands near a farm in France.  He is found and taken care of by a lonely farm girl named Katrine.  Although he doesn’t speak French and she doesn’t speak English, they learn to communicate and help each other.  However, their solitude and fear leads to their budding romance, all while the war around them gets closer and closer. 

• Cast Size: 1M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sulking under a bundle of balloons, a woman sits on a bench. Out of the blue, another woman joins her. One of them claims to know the other, yet the feelings are not reciprocated. Through the tension of small talk, questioning and silence, many shocking truths unfold as they both try to figure out the purpose of this mysterious encounter.

• Cast Size:2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Serena, a playwright who has been commissioned by an organization with questionable intentions, navigates a minefield of rich Karens, creative compromises, and re-written history. Chasing Breadcrumbs explores how a Black woman, motivated by the love of family, navigates the world and discovers her need to tell a story that money can’t buy.

• Cast Size: 1M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Verité, an African American Professor is at a crossroads. She’s complacent about her position and smug about her neutral stance regarding guns. Yet, she obsesses over a recent gun incident that resulted in the killing of an innocent black man.  She closely follows the story on TV and radio and is torn between the need to defend oneself and the need to comply with law enforcement. At the same time, her student Maxwell perplexes her with his own fixation on guns. He even offers to teach her how to shoot. With her own college increasing preparation for security risks and sudden attacks, and ultimately actual danger, Verité must confront her cynical attitude, her physical safety, and her own beliefs.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On a sunny Miami day, Kevin accidentally kills a butterfly. This accident sends Kevin into a spiral, and while he battles with his new identity as a murderer, something extraordinary happens- a flan is left on the riverbank. Despite his best friend Gwen’s warnings, Kevin eats the flan and suddenly side steps into Santeria. From Flan to Familia, Kevin’s journey deals with the inner workings of human identity we are never comfortable with sharing: Suicide.

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On a seemingly normal evening, drug runner and low-level gangster Teeny Boy decides to cook his old friend from lock up (Fang) a special dinner. The only problem is that this meal will be Fang’s last supper as Teeny Boy has been ordered by his boss (Dino)  in the Kush Gang to execute Fang. Teeny Boy reveals his murderous plans and for complicated reasons, Fang agrees to share this meal before his demise. The two rehash surviving incarceration and navigating release in a world offering them few options. Their night is interrupted by the arrival of Teeny Boy’s parole officer (Agent Clarabella Evans).

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: 45+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Apotemnophilia is an actual clinical disorder where those suffering want to remove one or more of their limbs or extremities in order to feel whole. Leg of Lam is the story of Afghan war vet, Lamar Delgado, who enlists his father, Oscar, to help amputate his leg, is more than a story of a man suffering with a disorder, but intended as a timely magical allegory of every human’s need to eliminate the negative effects of past personal traumas and generations of familial dysfunctions to be the true expression of their soul’s intention. Set in an isolated Colorado hunting cabin in the midst of a blizzard, Lamar has only until sunset on this 25^th day of the ninth lunar month to complete his mission while miracles are possible. His fellow DeMilo’s around the world are also fulfilling their dream to be whole on this day,  and counting on him with his most ambitious goal. Oscar’s late arrival with a hidden agenda complicates the situation, but the task of amputation miraculously ends as neither expected.

• Cast Size: 2M 
• Running Time: 75+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Earl Jackson, Jr. (E.J.) and Larry Johnson (L-Dog) are U.S. Army Rangers, serving in Somalia, under “Operation Restore Hope” in 1994. E.J. has gotten romantically involved with Halima Ibrahim, a young Somali woman. They meet clandestinely in dangerous, war-torn, Mogadishu, Somalia. Halima’s older sister, Jamila and E.J. ‘s fellow Army Ranger and friend L-Dog, oppose the relationship, which ends with tragic circumstances. This is a tale of war and love.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Ol Woman Naoia- tri blong hanred plis” (Women of Today-  three shells of kava please) chronicles one day in the life of three women who work at the same non-profit in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu (South Pacific). Leipakoa suffers domestic violence. Ana wins a scholarship to study abroad. Dawn is the expat volunteer who feels out of place. There is a chorus of women. The play is in English, Bislama and French and was created in 2010 by a diverse group of women in Port Vila in collaboration with VANGO, the University of the South Pacific and UNIFEM.

• Flexible Casting – Centers Black Female Characters
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

During a university theater class, Emma becomes entangled in a complex dynamic with her professor, Bernarda. As rehearsals intensify, art and reality blur, forcing Emma to confront shifting emotions and unspoken desires. The classroom transforms into a battleground of power, vulnerability, and artistic risk, where boundaries are tested, and identities reshaped. Through poetic language and evocative imagery, Ophelia Carries a Crown of Blood explores the ambiguity of student-teacher relationships, the cost of artistic devotion, and the haunting echoes of unfulfilled longing.

• Cast Size: 4W 4M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Phil Blakeny tries to come to grips with the impending closing of his family’s furniture store, something he has kept a secret from his wife and daughter. As things began to further unravel as Phil works long hours to keep things afloat, his reality is soon blurred when parts of his life leading up to the closing come to life, and Phil’s late father returns to find out what’s really happening beneath the surface of Phil’s failure. “You’re not only selling a piece of furniture. You’re selling life. You’re giving form to possibilities, shaping dreams made by young couples or the bachelor just starting out, the elderly man or woman starting their golden years in a new home. You’re filling in the void.” What happens when a father’s dreams for his family start slipping away? Captivating until the last moment, this beautiful family drama captures what the American dream means to small towns.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until “black” robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward. 

Cast Size: 3M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood have just lost their father, resulting not only in grief but financial ruin. Forced to move out of their home and adjust to a new normal, the Dashwoods navigate social change, expectations, and classic Jane Austen romances in this adaptation that reimagines them as women of color living in New York City in the summer of 1976.

• Cast Size: 7W 3M (with doubling); up to 9W 6M (without doubling)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

1966. In an all-Black private middle school on Chicago’s south side, precocious young Sunny befriends the new White history teacher, but her best friend, a budding young radical, doesn’t approve, and the older boy she has a crush on, is mysteriously quiet. In this coming-of-age story, the characters confront their deepest secrets in a thorny struggle to understand themselves, each other and the changing world around them.

Sex, Secrets, Civil Rights and Surviving the Holocaust– how does a Black girl make it through junior high?

After almost three decades, Delphine (Dell) Snowville is determined to get a divorce from her husband, Matthew (Matt). Matt refuses to give Dell the divorce until she confesses the real reason she wants to leave him and their restaurant, Snowville Café, that has served it’s African American historic community since 1970. Matt’s best friend (Bobby), and Dell’s best friend (Stella), have a relationship that leads to death for one of them in the end, which leaves Dell angry and bitter towards life, with her only comfort coming from the poems that (Stella) wrote. Other people that enter the café (Jasmine) the waitress, (Jerome) Dell’s lawyer, and a (Stranger), help Dell and Matt make decisions that change both of their lives.  

• Cast Size: 4M 3W 2-4GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Plasmatics is an inner-city blood plasma donation center that hosts a diverse, multi-generational band of donors who exchange plasma for money.  The center is the life’s work of Darla, a self-made businesswoman who has long treated the donors at her facility like a family, but after a business deal gone wrong, the means of survival are threatened for donors and staff alike.  The intelligent, but domineering Sandridge, wise and kind Mr. Bobby, earthy Lindy, conservative Kinnon, observant Ros, and more, are left to define family, expose the boundaries of capitalism, trust, and racial inequity as they wrestle with haunting pasts, the hard-scrabble present, and uncertain futures.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A shady businessman, Ralph, a physically disabled writer, Murphy, whose stories foretell every action Ralph would take, and a dingy basement serving as an interrogation chamber- that’s how ‘Strange Connection’ begins. As Ralph grills Murphy, he realizes that every step he takes to evade Murphy’s narrative propels him toward the destiny Murphy had already scripted for him. The power balance between the interrogator and the prisoner oscillates, relationships disintegrate, and the boundaries between past and present, good and evil, and right and wrong dissolve into a murky haze. Will Ralph unearth how Murphy is sabotaging his plans? Or will Murphy triumph in her quest to conquer Ralph?

• Cast Size: 3M, 6W, 1 either (2M, 4W, 1 M/W, with doubling)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Tinderbox takes place during the East St. Louis Riots of 1917. The Potts Family, black migrant workers from the South, arrive along with 470 other blacks in February 1917 at the height of management-labor conflict and increased racial tensions in industrial East St. Louis. The play leads up to the May 27 conflicts leading up to the deadly July 2 attacks by white rioters on blacks, the wanton destruction of property in the black section of East St. Louis, and the senseless massacre of hundreds of Blacks. The mob violence escalates, threatens the South End section of East St. Louis where they live, and the Potts are forced to defend themselves from imminent danger.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Junie Holguin returns home after three days and learns he’s been dead for three years. To figure out his death and his life he returns to his mother, his wife, and his daughter. Love, forgiveness, and magic play an important part in  Junie learning who he really is. 

• Cast Size: 1-2M 3F
• Running Time: Under sn Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

“whatdoesfreemean?” follows the journey of an African American woman serving a long sentence for a drug offense. Mary ends up in solitary confinement where she struggles to maintain her sanity as she fights off hallucinations who appear as characters. The play takes the audience into her psychic world. We travel alongside her self-guided intellectual and emotional journey into the nature of freedom, both physical and psychological as Mary’s external and internal experience unfolds on stage in the present, in memory and the fantasies that help her survive.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance  

As a mixed-race police family, the Claytons thought they were the model of acceptance, tolerance and love.  But when George Floyd dies under the knee of a white cop, the Claytons find themselves at odds with one another both in the riots in the streets of Winesville – or “Whitesville” as it’s known in rural Indiana – and in the family living room. Can white parents and their adopted black children own up to their own prejudice and reach a deeper level of honesty and support? Or will the nation’s unrest prove too much for this blended family to endure as a cop father in a gas mask faces off with his teen children with a mother/wife caught in the middle?

• Cast Size: 4M 2F
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance