SPRING 2021 Virtual residency

Twenty-six — Synopsis

Identity, retribution, and reckoning. Twenty -Six is a queer (self) love story. Senior-year at Swarthmore College is its own layer of hell for Tasha Fields. She will stop being “she”... if the chest-binder fits nicely. She will fall in love... if Tyler gets his shit together.

And, most importantly, she will die. Finally.
Wait, is that too morbid?

Tasha Fields will transfigure...if Em falls of the face of the Earth. Em ain’t going nowhere no time soon. Maybe, at least, Tasha Fields will ace her thesis on Black people. Because she is a Black people. Right... RIGHT?

Someone please believe Tasha, so Tasha can start to believe in herself.

artist statement

I am a Black, Queer storyteller from Southwest Philadelphia, committed to the transformative power of storytelling. I am a survivor of white supremacy. Provocation with purpose makes for dynamic, socially conscious, and challenging work, and my art centers complex, curious inquiries about society, its people, and the psychosis inflicted on marginalized groups by systemic oppression. I create to ignite decolonization and radical healing within communities. I tell brutally honest stories to empower others to tell their own. As an artist and person, it is my mission to build a Utopia we may not live to see.

Though I practice many creative mediums, recently I have focused on playwriting, acting, and artistic administration.

deep space — synopsis

A road trip across America and through outer space toward a gay wedding in Vegas forces three twenty-somethings to question the physical, emotional, and spiritual space between them.

history & what’s next

Deep Space was developed in workshop at The Barrow Group in New York City. It has subsequently been read through: First Fridays at TBG, The Inkwell Theatre, and Two Cats Theatre Company. It will receive a 2021 workshop production through Two Cats Theatre Company.

don’t laugh. it’s funny. — synopsis

Tom just threw himself off a bridge. He's going to die. As he falls, Tom reflects on the last relationship he had, what he thinks he'll leave behind, and challenges what it means to live with a mental illness.

It's funnier than it sounds.

artist statement

I began writing plays as a way to explore and unpack the things in the world around me that I did not understand. As a writer, I like to use intimate, interpersonal stories to explore broader ideas. I like to say I write tiny plays about big things, this intimate exchange of moments and energy in order to create a commentary on larger themes remains at the core of what I do as a writer. As both a black man and a queer person I also am a champion for stories that are informed and inspired by my blackness and my queerness, but not wholly centered on them. I want to find the humanity and the necessity in stories being told, and I want to work to grow into the writer that has the ability to tell those stories to his fullest potential.