Culture Shock
Two brilliant East African students start school in an Ivy League Institution and are placed in an all-black dorm. They experience new levels of (dis)orientation in a whirl of competitive placements and cultural clashes.
Shiro Kihagi and Amandla Jahava in a staged reading of Culture Shock at Vassar's Powerhouse Theater, 2023
Photograph by Buck Lewis
Awards/Honors
Texas State Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (Selected), 2024
Leah Ryan Fund Emerging Writers Award (Winner), 2023
Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Finalist), 2023
Local Theater Company Local Lab 12 (Finalist), 2023
Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (Semifinalist), 2023
Great Plains Theater Commons New Play Conference (Selected), 2022
American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award (Semifinalist), 2022
Alliance Theatre National Graduate Playwriting Competition (Finalist), 2021
Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Finalist), 2020