Horse Power: Tom Bass’ American Story

• Coterie Theatre (Kansas City, MO),  September-October 2024

Only One Day A Year

• Coterie Theatre, Kansas City, MO, February-March  2023
• Selected for Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices 2020 as one of six selected national plays
• Coterie Theatre Production received a $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2020
• Finalist in ReImagine: New Plays For TYA, December 2021

 

Say It, Flo!

• A Call To Conscience Theatre Co. (St. Louis, MO)

Production, March 2023

• Commissioned by the University of Missouri-Columbia Theatre Department

Zoom reading, February 2022

 

 

Her Name

• Voices of Arrow Rock - Missouri Bicentennial Event (Arrow Rock, MO)

               Production, August 2021

 

Coloring Within The Lines

• a one-act play with the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum’s “30 Americans” Exhibit, August 2019

 

Justice in the Embers

• Production, StoryWorks (Tides Theater of San Francisco and Center for Investigative Reporting)

Kansas City, MO., February 2016

• Production, StoryWorks (Tides Theater of San Francisco and Center for Investigative Reporting)

Oakland, CA, July 2016

 

Walking In Her Shoes (working title): A play about Dr. Ella Mae Piper

• Florida Repertory Theatre (Fort Myers, FL)

Traveling production, scheduled 2025-2026

 

 

 

Chasing Breadcrumbs

• One of three plays selected for Local Lab 13 - Local Theater Company (Boulder, CO)

Staged reading, March 2024

Full production by Local Theater Company (Boulder, CO), Feb. 2025

 

40 Acres and A Laptop: Or When The Past and Dystopian Future Collide

• Northern Arizona University Voices In America Reading Series (Flagstaff, AZ)

Staged reading, February 2024

• Play Development Lab at Howard University (Washington DC)

Staged reading, March 2025

 

Long Layover

• Short List for Seattle Public Theater for Distillery 2024 Reading Series (Seattle, WA)
• Finalist in Florida Rep PlayLab Festival (Fort Myers, FL)

Staged reading, May 2023

• Black Spectrum Theatre Co. (New York, NY)

Staged reading, March 2023

• Semi-finalist in We Will Dream: New Works Festival (New Orleans, LA), September 2022
• Semi-finalist in the Playwright Foundation’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival, May 2021

 

The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip

• Loft Ensemble (Los Angeles, CA)

Production, scheduled for April 2024

• Looking For Lilith Theatre Company (Louisville, KY)

Staged Reading, November 2023

• New African Grove Theatre Company (Atlanta, GA)

Production, May 2022

• Talking Horse Productions (Columbia, MO)

 February 2020 Production

• KC Melting Pot Theatre Co. (Kansas City, MO) February 2019 Production
• Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX)

               Finalist in 2018 New Works Festival

• Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO)

Semi-finalist in 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series 

• Winner of Olathe Civic Theatre (Olathe, KS)

New Works Playwrights Competition, March 2017

• National Black Theatre Co. (New York, NY)

Staged reading, March 2017

Final Arrangements

• Talking Horse Productions (Columbia, MO)

Production, June 2023 

• The Fire This Time Festival (NYC)

Staged reading, January 2018

• Script2Stage2Screen Theatre Co. (Rancho Mirage, CA)

Staged reading, March 2017

(Winner of four awards in the 2017 Desert Theatre League Awards)

Mustard Seeds

• Pork Filled Productions Unleashed Festival (Seattle, WA)

Zoom staged reading, November 2020

• Nelson-Atkins Art Museum(Kansas City, MO)

               Staged reading, February 2018

• Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO)

               Staged reading, Feb. 2020

 

Pass Over

• Olathe Civic Theatre Association (Olathe, KS)

               Production, April 2019

• Westport Center for the Arts (Kansas City, MO),

               Staged reading, June 2018 

• Script2Stage2Screen Theatre Co. (Rancho Mirage, CA)

Staged reading, March 2018

• Jewish Ensemble Theatre (Detroit, MI) 2017 Festival of New Plays

Workshop reading, June 2017 

• Millikin University Theater Dept. (Decatur, Ill.)

Staged reading, Nov. 2015

 

Buried Roots

• The Parsnip Ship (New York, NY)

               Staged reading/podcast, October 2019

• KC Repertory Theatre - New Works Festival (Kansas City, MO)

               Staged reading, August 2019

 

Echoes of Octavia

• TRU Voices (New York, NY)

Staged reading, June 2015

• The Melting Pot KC Theater Company (Kansas City, MO)

Staged reading, September 2013

Production, August 2014

Rights of Passage

• Four Walls Theatre

              Online production, July 2020

• KC Repertory Theatre in New Works Festival (Kansas City, MO)

               Staged reading, May 2016 

• Big Momma’s Backporch Theater Co. (Springfield, MO)

Production, Feb. 2015 

 

The Green Duck Lounge

• Mizzou New Works Series (Columbia, MO)

               Staged reading, Feb. 2017

• University of Missouri Theatre Department (Columbia, MO)

               Production, Feb.2018

 

Best Light

• Kansas City Fringe Festival (Kansas City, MO)

            Self-production, July 2015

 

Riding Backwards

• Kansas City Fringe Festival (Kansas City, MO)

            Self-production, July 2014

 

Wiccans in the ‘Hood

• BrainSpunk Theater (Philadelphia, PA)

               Production, June 2014

• Kansas City Fringe Festival

               Self-production, July 2013 (Sixth best-attended show out of more than 120 in the  

               festival)

• Midwinter Madness Festival (New York, NY)

               Self-production, February 2013

 

Trading Races: From Rodney King to Paula Deen

• BrainSpunk Theater (Philadelphia, PA)

              Production, June 2014

• Planet Connections Theater Festival (New York, NY)

              Production, May 2014

 

The Negro Whisperer

• Kansas City Kwaanza Festival

               Production, December 2018

• The Fire This Time Festival (NYC), 

               Reading selection, January 2017

• Emerging Artists Theater's 10th Annual New Work Series (New York, NY)

               Staged Reading, October 2013

Like a Knife

Published by YouthPLAYS, 2021

 

Waiting for Virginia Wolfe

Production, The Fire This Time Festival (NYC), January 2017

 

Forever Hold Your Peace

Production, Smoked Apple Productions (Louisville, KY), May 2015

 

Olivia's Little Patch of Snow

Production, Fade to Black Festival (Houston, TX), June 2014

 

What A Fool Believes

Production, Superstition Play Festival (Milford, CT), July 2013

 

A Rebecca By Any Other Name is Still A Becky

Full production, Fade to Black Play Festival (Houston, TX), June 2013

 

Three Dogs and a Bone

Staged reading, Potluck Productions (Kansas City, MO), November 2012

 

As The Guiding Light Turns

Production, Kansas City Fringe Festival,  (Kansas City, MO)

July 2012

 

No Other Way

Production, Barn Players (Mission, KS), December 2011

Selected to the Playwright Wing of First Look Buffalo (New York) Theatre Company in June 2024

 

Selected as the Inaugural playwright for Play Development Lab 2024/2025 (Washington, DC)

 

Legacy Playwright Grants (Portland, OR), 2023 Finalist and $1,000 grant recipient 

Selected to write a section forward for: Girod, Kelley Nicole. 25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater. Methuen Drama, 2022.

 

Charlotte Street Foundation Resident Artist 2019-2020

 

Selected as one of nine playwrights attending HBMG Foundation’s 2019 National Winter Playwrights Retreat in Creede, Colorado

 

Playwright Adviser at William Inge Center for the Arts 13th Annual High School 24-Hour Plays Event, August 2018

 

Selected as one of the featured playwrights for The Fire This Time Festival 2017 (NYC)

 

Selected as BrainSpunk Theater Playwright-in-Residence for 2015 (Philadelphia, PA)

 

One of four inaugural resident playwrights of Midwest Dramatists Center (Kansas City, MO) April 2014

 

One of five writers selected for Project Playwright (Kansas City, MO), Two 10-minute play productions, June 2013

 

Board member of the International Centre of Women Playwrights from 2013-2015 

 

Playwright Respondent for the Mid-America Theater Conference, March 2015