The Jubilee Project (2059)

The Jubilee Project is an ongoing multidisciplinary theater project that questions what does it mean for both an individual and a society to “get free”? Drawn from the biblical concept of Jubilee - an ancient time of liberation where every 49 years land was repatriated, the enslaved were set free, and debts were forgiven - this project is composed of seven seven-year cycles where the playwright composes a new short work to reflect on and re-contextualize the previous cycles around the central question of personal and collective freedom.

If all goes according plan, the cycle will be completed in 2059.

Part I: Bread of Heaven (2016)
(play with music, short, 1m)
Bread of Heaven is an intimate solo theatre piece that mines and dramatizes the religious journey of K, a playwright growing up in the Black church who becomes Jewish. Liberally based on the life of the playwright, Bread of Heaven weaves a non-linear journey through the porous boundaries of K’s racial and religious identity, placing it in conversation with the narratives, myths, movements, and hymns of his distinct, lived communities.

Part II: Plague, or By Any Other Name (2023)
(monologue)
Plague, or By Any Other Name is a short monologue-meditation that throws several Biblical plague texts into dialogue with the with the too many “plagues” (e.g, Covid-19 pandemic, the entrenchment of extremist violence) of the intervening years since the first installment of the Jubilee Project cycle. In this installation, K surveys the world from the new vantage point of becoming a father. Ultimately, he finds himself caught between the fervent hope in a moral universe and increasing alienation from the divine.