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In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot
at Playwrights Horizons
Donnetta joins an iconic cast of queer and trans storytellers to bring the world premiere of Sarah Mantell’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot to life. "Amazon" is Playwrights commission directed by Sivan Battat and presented in association with Breaking the Binary Theatre.
October 10 - November 17, 2024
Mainstage Theater
ABOUT THE PLAY
As the oceans rise, a band of queer warehouse workers travel from job to job, running from the encroaching coastline. An unlikely love story, and a startling new work of speculative fiction, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a quietly revolutionary tale of queer aging, chosen family, and the search for home in a volatile world.
KUDZU CALLING
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The New Southern Canon
Commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival as part of their New Southern Canon initiative, Kudzu Calling is a theatrical interweaving of poetry-rich scenes that seek to expand and complicate the Southern narrative. A celebration of Black Southern Love, Black Southern Queerness, Black Southern Playfulness, Culture, and Spirituality. It examines what it truly means to return home. At its core, it is Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ love letter to the place that made the Whiting Award-winning playwright.
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Josh White and the south carolina new play festival
Donnetta is thrilled to be the first commissioned playwright for the South Carolina New Play Festival. She is humbled to return to her home state to tell a story inspired by Greenville, SC native and folk legend Josh White.
Literary Ancestry; Refocus Project
The Literary Ancestry Essay Series (Curated by playwright Dave Harris) aims to create a collection of personal craft essays by living Black playwrights about the non-living Black playwrights that live on in their work. For this series, we commissioned playwrights to pick one play by a non-living Black playwright and write about how this play impacted their artistry. The essays in this round are written by Vivian J.O. Barnes, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Nathan Alan Davis, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, and Dave Harris.
https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/literary-ancestry-essay-series