2019-2020 Season
When Lighting The Voids
Playwright: Jon Bernson
Director: Jennifer Welch
Locations: Biloxi, MS, San Francisco, CA, and New Orleans, LA
Newsroom: Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting (Jennifer Gollan)
A mystery investigating a tragic accident in a Gulf Coast shipyard. Culled from interviews with OSHA investigators, shipyard workers and family members of the deceased, the play unravels the story of what happened and reveals the human trauma inflicted by the accident.
Wade Through the Waters
Playwright: Aallyah Wright and Jennifer Welch
Director: Jennifer Welch
Location: Shaw, Mississippi
In Shaw, Mississippi, Andrew and Mary Lou Hawkins along with the NAACP Legal Defense fund organized the black citizens of their town to file a class-action lawsuit and sue the town’s white leadership in federal court. This is the story of how they organized, the landmark court ruling in their favor and the deadly consequences for the Hawkins family.
