Cast photo of "The Rule Book Can't Apply", courtesy of The PlayGround Experiment, July 8, 2017
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From left to right: Alexandra Bonesho, Josette Marina Murray, Peyton Michelle Edwards, Christopher Buchanan (playwright), Aja Singletary, Mischa Dani Goodman and Manning Jordan.
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A Little About MeI'm a New York City based playwright, performer and producer. I have earned a professional playwriting membership with the Dramatists Guild of America and I am also an artistic member with two theatre troupes: The PlayGround Experiment and Dialogue With Three Chords.
My latest play Angels Watching From Afar received a reading by The PlayGround Experiment in July, 2019. A reading of my first play, The Emancipation of Bonnie Marie, was produced at CAP21 studios in November of 2014. The Rule Book Can't Apply had two readings, first in July, 2017 by The PlayGround Experiment and again one year later under my own theatre label, The Polar Bear Theatre Company. As a performer, I recently starred in my play Ad Nauseam for The New Ambassador Theatre Company's production of The Blurring Boundaries Short Play Festival. I was also the title character in Mr. Long as part of the 2017 Frigid New York Festival. Back in my hometown of Washington, DC, I once appeared as Klingon Hamlet (no, I'm not joking) for WSC Avant Bard in two productions of By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon. The two performances featured George Takei and Stephen Fry respectively. I also appeared in productions and readings for such wonderful local companies, such as Active Cultures Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Theatre Alliance, The Theatre Lab of Washington, Unstrung Harpist and The Lazy Susan Dinner Theatre. Click the photo to the left to download my full headshot. |
Recent and Notable Highlights
Will be performing in the Winter One Acts Festival by Brooklyn ONE Productions ... This festival will feature a collection of six new short plays. I will appear alongside Nicole Grieco in Duet, penned by playwright Susan Yocum. Duet is a beautifully written piece that explores and illuminates the tragic consequences of romantic choices gone wrong as its two characters face off in heaven to discuss their differences.
Festival runs from January 30th - Feburary 2nd, 2025. For information and to purchase tickets: https://www.bkone.org/
Dialogue With Three Chords presents Every Cracked and Broken Thing Shines Like It's Divine ... a collection of three new plays which form a part of the ongoing narrative The Major Arcana or The Fool's Journey. I was featured in the play The Ten of Swords or The Let Off and the Drop where I portrayed the character of Bobby Tucker, a famed jazz pianist, illuminating his relationship with Billie Holiday during their time working together from 1946-1949.
8:46 Fresh Perspectives was released June 19th, 2021!!! The New World of Theatre is publishing an anthology of monologues about living in America while black. 8:46 Fresh Perspectives, named after the tragic murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, is our response to the climate of racial violence against black and brown women and men by police.
The monologue being published is Your Grandma Was Out There, an excerpt from my play Angels Watching From Afar where Patricia, the grandmother of two of the play's other characters, reveals her involvement in the riots that engulfed much of Washington, DC after MLK's assassination.
More information can be found here ... https://www.newworldtheatre.org/0846-collection/
Festival runs from January 30th - Feburary 2nd, 2025. For information and to purchase tickets: https://www.bkone.org/
Dialogue With Three Chords presents Every Cracked and Broken Thing Shines Like It's Divine ... a collection of three new plays which form a part of the ongoing narrative The Major Arcana or The Fool's Journey. I was featured in the play The Ten of Swords or The Let Off and the Drop where I portrayed the character of Bobby Tucker, a famed jazz pianist, illuminating his relationship with Billie Holiday during their time working together from 1946-1949.
8:46 Fresh Perspectives was released June 19th, 2021!!! The New World of Theatre is publishing an anthology of monologues about living in America while black. 8:46 Fresh Perspectives, named after the tragic murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, is our response to the climate of racial violence against black and brown women and men by police.
The monologue being published is Your Grandma Was Out There, an excerpt from my play Angels Watching From Afar where Patricia, the grandmother of two of the play's other characters, reveals her involvement in the riots that engulfed much of Washington, DC after MLK's assassination.
More information can be found here ... https://www.newworldtheatre.org/0846-collection/
Angels Watching From Afar was featured in The First Reads Festival by The PlayGround Experiment! My latest play explores old time religion, the civil rights movement, old school and modern feminism and #BlackLivesMatter from the point of view of an unconventional and fragile family of black women in the Nation's Capital. http://www.theplaygroundexperiment.com/.
The Emancipation of Bonnie Marie was a finalist in the Producer's Perspective PRO Broadway play reading series! My very first play explores the issue of domestic violence and how it affects communities throughout the globe. https://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2019/01/introducing-a-revival-of-our-davenport-reading-series.html
Ad Nauseam was produced by the New Ambassadors Theatre Company! The Blurring Boundaries Short Play Festival, New Ambassadors Theatre Company's inaugural short play festival, premiered at The Kraine Theater in the East Village. Blurring Boundaries explores religious, gender and sexual (non)conformity, and how society distorts the idea of public versus private personae. https://newambassadorstheatre.com/
The Emancipation of Bonnie Marie was a finalist in the Producer's Perspective PRO Broadway play reading series! My very first play explores the issue of domestic violence and how it affects communities throughout the globe. https://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2019/01/introducing-a-revival-of-our-davenport-reading-series.html
Ad Nauseam was produced by the New Ambassadors Theatre Company! The Blurring Boundaries Short Play Festival, New Ambassadors Theatre Company's inaugural short play festival, premiered at The Kraine Theater in the East Village. Blurring Boundaries explores religious, gender and sexual (non)conformity, and how society distorts the idea of public versus private personae. https://newambassadorstheatre.com/
