BROKEN THREAD
by D-Davis
On the day of a family portrait, sisters gather around a black baby grand piano: the altar where their immigrant mother has staked the family’s worth on beauty, discipline, and perfection. But the frame won’t hold. As the camera flashes, memory floods: a prodigy’s gift curdled by a predatory teacher, a needle traded for a lost note, another daughter screaming inside a pink dress no one heard. Broken Thread moves like music — a counterpoint of past and present –– braiding a family of women who learned to perform love before they could speak it. Working from the body and the fault lines, it stages what portraits conceal and what sisterhood, finally, dares to reveal — asking: when the thread breaks, can a family find the note again?
- Cast Size: 5W 1GN
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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About the Playwright
D-Davis is a neurodivergent, genderfluid playwright who writes to implicate rather than console, leaving room to debate, to rage, to hope, and to imagine a world both softer and more ferocious than the one her characters entered. She was a finalist for Cry Havoc. Her play, The Midwives was a semifinalist for the O’Neil Conference and the Terrance McNalley Incubator, and her play Broken Thread was a semifinalist for Premiere Stages, Road Theatre, Bronx Creative Vision Award and a Workshop Theatre Intensive. She received an DQT American Woman Fellowship (Grrls Play Bass) and HB Studio Residency Fellowship (Complicity). She has worked with Play Penn, Primary Stages, New York Theater Workshop, Inkwell Theater, The Actors Studio, Eden Theater Company, Playwrights Realm, PlayCo, AMIOS – Project 42, Theatre East, Workshop Theatre, Howl Playwrights, Goddard College and Columbia University. She earned a BA in Theater at Bennington College, an MA in History at CUNY, granted two NEH research fellowships (Feminism and Philosophy), and earned an MFA in playwriting at Columbia University. She currently works as the Literary Associate for The Tent Theater Company. www.d-davis.com
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