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Full-Length plays
mourning doves
or, the bird play
a full-length play by Imani Russell
2021 ---- After the death of her grandfather, Güendis finds herself missing out on her last year of high school to take care of her grieving mother, grandmother, and sister. Forced to grow up too soon, she tries to cope in her own way... with the help of a familiar and possibly otherworldly friend. Mourning Doves (or, the bird play) explores the decay/regeneration of a family, the pressures of being an eldest daughter, and asks:
"who has the right to grieve?"
partially developed through The Lark's Beyond the Binary writer's group
Gold star
a full-length play by Imani Russell
2017 ---- Gold Star opens just after Lottie is left at the altar on her wedding day. Heartbroken and reeling from this grand deviation from her life plan, Lottie reflects on her past and for the first time in her life, begins to confront and navigate her sexuality. The play weaves together scenes set in Lottie's present (2008) and flashbacks to her adolescence (the 1990s) to form a non-linear exploration of memory, sexuality, loss, and growth. Gold Star premiered at the Brick Theatre in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Summer Fresh Festival.
SHORT plays
THE APPLE
a closet play by Imani Russell
2020 ---- Meant to be read, not performed, The Apple is a micro play about hiding, mistaken identity, blood, and sweet sweet slices of fruit.
read The Apple by clicking the icon here:
angel in the greenhouse
a short play
2018 ---- Butter Jones, Sofocles Saez, Tilly Costello, and Forrest Costello, aka The Greenhouse Gang, are called together one summer night after Butter discovers an angel has crash landed in his backyard. The four teenagers must decide how to get the angel back home-- or if that decision is really up to them.
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AUDIO plays
RÍO AND THE CASE OF THE COQUÍS
written for Girl Tales Podcast as part of their "Freshwater" series
2022 ---- All the parents of Freshwater go missing and all of the kids turn into coquís, little frogs commonly found in Puerto Rico! Río has to figure out how to get all of the parents back from a hummingbird god and turn the kids back into humans! Listen by clicking the icon to the right (below on mobile):
poetry
Loves me | loves me not
My poetry/photography has been included in the second and fourth issues of the Loves Me | Loves Me Not zine. This zine, published annually on Valentine's Day, is an web-based collection of poetry, short stories, photography, and other art created by queer/trans/nonbinary people/women of color, and edited by Jenevieve Ting and Nikita Lamba.
2020 was the first year that physical copies of the zine were sold in Los Angeles, CA.
Click on the photos to read my poems:
"untitled/caldo" (2021)
"you called me a pessimist" (2020) and
"236" (2018)
Loves Me | Loves Me Not (2021)
Loves Me | Loves Me Not (2018)
Loves Me | Loves Me Not (2020)