53% OF

full-length play (6W)

The president is coming to town, and the ladies of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania are beside themselves planning for the big event. Later, their husbands drink beer and talk smack. Much later, a group of 20-somethings gather in Brooklyn to plan a fundraiser...or is it a march? Or is it a ritual to absolve their own guilt? A play about complicity and the violence of the status quo, 53% Of asks what happens when we stop equating white womanhood with goodness, and ignorance with innocence.

World Premiere, Second Stage Theater, 2022 (dir. Tiffany Nichole Greene)

Reading, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2021 (dir. Nataki Garrett)

Reading, The Public Theater, 2020 (dir. Candis Jones)

Winner, Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, 2020

Production, Alliance Theatre, 2020 (dir. Candis Jones)  *cancelled due to Covid-19

Workshop, The Kennedy Center, 2019 (dir. Candis Jones)

Workshop, Ojai Playwrights' Conference, 2018 (dir. Nataki Garrett)

Runner-Up, Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, KCACTF, 2018

Workshop Production, UC-San Diego, 2018 (dir. Jennifer Chang)

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• Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.