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New Jersey Premiere
Mud Row
JULY 14 - 31, 2022
by DOMINIQUE MORRISEAU
directed by MARSHALL JONES, III
Two generations of sisters navigate class, race, love and family on “Mud Row,” an area in the East End of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Elsie hopes to move up in the world by marrying into “the talented tenth,” while her sister Frances joins the fight for Civil Rights. Decades later, estranged sisters Regine and Toshi are forced to reckon with their shared heritage and each other, when Regine inherits granny Elsie’s house.
Mud Row was presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com
2020/21 Play Festival Finalist
Scab
SEPTEMBER 8 - 25, 2022
by GINO DIIORIO
directed by JOHN J. WOOTEN
Gilda, a middle-aged woman, has to train Eduardo, a young Mexican man, how to be a shop foreman when her factory plant moves to Mexico. Over the course of a week, they discover that their assumptions regarding personal expectations and cultural differences are not always correct.
2021/22 Liberty Live Commission
Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family
OCTOBER 13 - 23, 2022
by TYLIE SHIDER
directed by OTHELL J MILLER
As tensions reach an all-time high between Newark residents and police, racial and civil unrest begins spilling into Plainfield, New Jersey in the “Long Hot Summer of 1967”. Clif and Peach moved their family to Plainfield for the promise of a better future, but as the riots begin, the family contemplates a return to the South.
Tylie Shider is the recipient of the Liberty Live 2021/22 Commission. The Liberty Live commission is awarded biennially, in partnership with Kean University’s Liberty Hall.