the wilting point
Keegan TheatrE, Washington, D.C. (2023)
Photo by: Mike Kozemchak for Keegan Theatre. From left: Sophia Colón Roosevelt as River and Gabriel Alejandro as Udo.
“my STORIES haVE a kind of unrelenting discord,
with an undercurrent of sweetness and hope.”
— Graziella jackson, writer & Playwright
Rebecca Reinhardt Roy (in loving memory, 1978-2021), After Eleven, Capital Fringe Festival 2015, Washington, D.C.
AFTER ELEVEN
After Eleven is a one-woman play that investigates a mother’s journey in dealing with her son’s mental illness and life at the edge of uncontrollable violence. Told through the eyes of Jude Temper, a 9-11 Pentagon widow and mother to Matty, a boy with mental illness, After Eleven investigates how systematic failures in our social, educational, health and judicial systems overburden parents and fail to prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook from happening. As Jude tries to protect her son, Matty, from inevitable failure, After Eleven examines the burdens that unsupported parents face in trying to love and adequately nurture a child with severe mental illness.
Beverlix Jean-Baptiste as Mina Melo, The Wilting Point, 2023, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C. Photo by Mike Kozemchak for Keegan Theatre.
The Wilting Point
The Elements Plays: CYCLE One
Audiences travel with Mina Melo, the producer of the award-winning podcast Clime, back to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Southern Colorado, where she is reluctantly adapting Clime as a series for a new streaming entertainment company. The series producer wants Mina to pick up with an unsolved murder investigation, but Mina is determined to tell a story about how climate-related water shortages and drought are threatening the community’s way of life.
THE WILTING POINT is the first entry in the four-part ELEMENTS play cycle
Scenes from The Wilting Point, Keegan Theatre, 2023. Photos by Mike Kozemchak.
Bianca Lipford, Little Wars, WomXn on Fire Festival 2020, Keegan Theatre, Washington, D.C.
LITTLE WARS
Little Wars is a full-length play that follows two ambitious women at an advertising agency who have twenty-four hours to save their jobs and the agency. As they attempt to develop a campaign for the largest women's shapewear company, they find themselves absorbed in conflicts of power, feminism, sexuality, and commerce.
“Relentless, Powerful ★★★★★”
Graziella Jackson is a Brazilian-American playwright based in South Central Appalachia. She is pictured here (center) with (from left) Linda Bard and Bianca Lipford, cast of the staged reading of Little Wars, held August 26, 2019 at Keegan Theatre in Washingon, D.C. Little Wars was an official selection for full production in Keegan’s 2020 WomXn on Fire Festival, held March 11-15, 2020 (full run canceled due to COVID).
“A strong sense of power dynamics in this relationship and a great, sly feel for dialogue.”
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full-length
Full-length works include The Wilting Point (cycle one of The Elements Plays), Little Wars, and After Eleven. The Wilting Point is showing April 13-30, 2023, at Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C., with staged readings of cycles two through four April 10, 17, and 24.
10-minute
Ten-minute plays include Ten, What it Means to Choke, Loggerheads, Palm, and The Timberman and the Yule. They have been produced by Source Festival, Keegan Theatre, and Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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experimental
Experimental works include five one-minute plays developed for the 2015, 2016, and 2017 D.C. One Minute Play Festivals (1MPF) and a spoken word commission developed for Word Dance Theatre as part of its 2016 performance, Chambers of the Heart.