Malian-American siblings Amadou and Safiatou are left alone as their mother goes to bury their grandfather back in Africa. Tonight, Safiatou considers going out to see her ill-fated romance's orchestra performance, and Amadou reckons with the grief of the upcoming anniversary of their father's death. Together, they are brought through dreams of Mali and America as they debate the efficacy of Black existence in America; strangers in a strange land, and the potentiality of the night. 

• Produced for Woolly Mammoth × Strathmore Arts & Social Justice Fellowship, 2024

In 2021, Milena writes her friend, a soldier of the Malian Armed Forced, from her room in Paris. As Amadou feels he will be sent to fight against Tuareg relatives up North, Milena reckons with her distance from her homeland. Amadou is visited by an apparition of Modibo Keita, the first prime minister of Mali, who reminds him of pan-Africanism, and Milena stays with her Polish roommate who participated in doctors without borders in Mali.

• D.C. Metro Region Scholastic Silver Key, 2024

In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Octavia Olatunji reunites with her sister, who is studying at Cambridge. When a familiar stranger, Étienne,  comes to her doorstep, time itself comes to a halt. In four interconnected vignettes around and in Prospect Park, we see young people reckon with different kinds of parting as Étienne commands the perpetual rearrangement of atoms in the pattern of Sufi Asha'rite atomism. The world is constantly recreated, life is absurd, and through it all, the prevailing forces of love and grief. 

• Produced at Alexandria City High School (Jan. 2024) 

In 1968, Lindy and Shirley fall in love in Princeville, North Carolina. Almost half a century later, Marilyn Tanaka shows up on Linda Simmons' doorstep. We watch the reunion as two days converge in the same house.

• Princeton Ten-Minute Play Contest First-Prize

When seventeen-year-old Marquis Greene is shot and killed by a school resource officer in Northern Virginia, the country is put in a whirlwind. In nearby Washington, D.C., protests erupt. Marquis's best friend Elias, who is white, finds himself at odds with how those who resemble him could treat the memory of his best friend. Simultaneously, Marquis' sister and activists reckon with the efficacy of their protests in a seemingly apathetic world. 

Outside of the Cotton Club, where Blacks are allowed to perform but not enter, subversive singer Zora stages a counter concert with her friends. As Mara performs poetry heralding the New Negro movement, a fictionalized Owney Madden is forced to compete with a manifestation of a changing Black American spirit.

In the early seventies, Aleksander, an environmental scientist in Northern Vermont, plans to self immolate in Washington, D.C. in protest of rising American imperialism based on actions in Vietnam and abroad. His wife, Ophelia, is perturbed when she catches him leaving early in the morning, and as his two children, Nikolai and Esther, wake up, more and more unveils itself. As the night deepens, each member of the family reveals their own secrets and postures towards the impending act.

In 1956, a small, Southern town killed a young, Black dreamer. In 1986, a newcomer is told the story on the thirty year anniversary. Framed by a perpetual peach tree, the legacy of the ground beneath them as the evil rages and sugars over presents itself.