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by Aleshea Harris (Author)
"Aleshea Harris turns theater into a monument, ephemeral but real, to ongoing pain. You can't tear down a statue that never shows up outside." --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker
This volume includes two dynamic plays from Aleshea Harris that confront the experience of being Black in America.
An explosive epic that examines the cyclical nature of violence, Is God Is follows twin sisters who undertake a dangerous journey to exact revenge upon their father at the behest of their dying mother.
What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play-pageant-ritual response to anti-Blackness in America. It is a challenge to us all: to heal through expression, expulsion, and movement.
Author Biography
Aleshea Harris is an American playwright, spoken word artist, author, educator, actor, performer and screenwriter. Her work has been presented many places, including the Costume Shop at American Conservatory Theater, Playfest at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, VOXfest at Dartmouth, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Theatre @ Boston Court, L'École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne, National Drama Center in France. Harris's awards include the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwrighting, the Hermitage Greenfield Prize, and The Horton Foote Prize.
