FALL 2020
OLE WHITE SUGAH DADDY
by Obehi Janice
directed by Caitlin Sullivan
in partnership with AYE DEFY
Live Broadcast Reading October 23 8PM ET | Rebroadcasts of recording 10/24–10/27
In Ole White Sugah Daddy, a young Black female coder and MIT grad wrestles with love, identity, and the tension between striving and thriving. Lynne is struggling to get her new app noticed when an unexpected investor appears in the form of an older white man. Set amidst Boston’s startup culture, Ole White Sugah Daddy asks, ‘What do you do when you don’t want the attention you’re getting and you’re not getting the attention you want?’
LOCKDOWN
by WP’s Mellon Playwright In Residence, Cori Thomas
directed by Kent Gash
with Lillian Andrea De León, Reynaldo Piniella,Travis Raeburn, Heather Alicia Simms, Keith Randolph Smith
in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Live Broadcast Recording December 3 at 7PM ET | Rebroadcasts of recording from 12/4 at 10am ET to 12/7 at 6pm ET
Inspired by her conversations with people serving life sentences at San Quentin Prison, the reading of this searing and beautiful play by Cori Thomas (When January Feels Like Summer) will reunite the cast and director of the acclaimed Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production. Lockdown is an authentic, intimate, and powerful examination of what life in prison is really like, and an exploration of the possibilities for transformation through human connection.