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Season

2024

Plays and writers supported by PlayPenn have gone on to more than 600 professional productions across Broadway, Off-Broadway, LORT, domestic, and international stages. Learn more about the plays PlayPenn has supported over 20 years. 

Spitting Image: A Brown Girl’s Story About Her Black Friend

by Nimisha Ladva

Adjunct Professor Nalini is a finalist for her dream teaching job when she is called in by the Provost and learns that a student has filed a complaint against her for teaching a classic text of the Harlem Renaissance that features a violent lynching.

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Celebrity Dream Date

by Keenya Jackson

Meet Leva and Sky Parker, the creators of a fresh, new take on the dating scene. Inspired after reading about their aunt’s journal about a steamy, love affair with an old Hollywood actor (which had to be made up, right?) Leva and Sky navigate between AI generated dates and real dates and learn that dating for single black females is not for the faint at heart. What does real love look like? And can black women achieve it?

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Junk Redemption

by eppchez yo-sí yes

Lorna, a curator from the city who specializes in showing self-taught/outsider artists is chasing the lead of an anonymous public sculpture in the hope of finding her next artist to champion.

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Trans World

by Ty Defoe

When transgender folks are chosen to temporarily live in a house to be filmed non-stop for a new reality TV show, the lines between reality and pretend become jagged and blurred.

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