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HISTORY

  • Sept 2023, Reading, Readings @ Red, Red Theatre, Chicago

  • Nov 2022, Workshop, EMOS Ecodrama Festival, Emory University, Atlanta — Director Addae Moon

An American Animal

95 mins: 3W, 1M, 1GN

Chloe is a young black girl who wants to be a wolf biologist when she grows up. Willa is a trans girl who’s trying to learn guitar to pass the time in Wyoming. Paz is a forest ranger, a woman who’s been watching the wolves for decades. The Hunter is a white man who wants to kill a wolf. And Jack is a jackalope who tries not to get shot.

A play about the wolf-reintroduction in Yellowstone, what we fear in America, and who decides what we fear in America.

Read the script at NPX

 

AWARDS & Recognition

  • 2022: Second Place Winner, EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights Festival

  • 2021: Finalist, Scratchpad Series, The Playwrights Realm

  • 2020: Semi-Finalist, The Story Theatre Resident Playwright, Story Theatre