Culture Shock
Two African students, Zahra from Tanzania and Hawi from Kenya, start school in an Ivy League institution. They are placed in Salama House, an all-black dorm and affinity space for black students. Faced with cultural, academic and economic challenges, Zahra and Hawi try to make it through Freshman Year, while facing the reality of what it means to be black in America.
Cast size: 9
Fifteen Hundred
Nantei, Vivi and Rachel are equally fast when it comes to running the fifteen hundred, but there is only one spot available on the Kenyan Olympics Team. Faced with high expectations from their relentless mothers and their unforgiving coach, they will each stop at nothing to get the chance to win a gold medal for their country.
Cast Size: 7
Life Sentence
Baba Grace faces a law suit where he must pay a large sum of money or go to jail. He plans to marry off Grace to a wealthy lawyer in exchange for a hefty bride price (dowry) that will save him and his reputation. However, Grace has secrets of her own that could completely jeopardize his plans.
Cast Size: 5
Mala Aria
Hoping to discover how to eradicate Malaria, Amazia leaves her family in Tanzania to pursue a PhD abroad. An unforeseen turn of events puts her in a position where she has to decide between staying in the west and going back home to finish what she started.
Cast Size: 4
My Father was Shot in the Back of the Head
All his life, her father had wanted a son. Therefore even before she was born, she was already a disappointment. My Father was Shot in the Back of the Head uses conventions of African Storytelling Theater to tell an unconventional coming of age story about loss, love and belonging.
Cast Size: 9+
Possessed
Furaha returns home on a medical leave and embarks on a road trip with her brother Angaza, who believes her mental health is in fact a demon possession.
Cast Size: 3
Uhuru
Mshale, a Mount Kilimanjaro tour guide, dreams of marrying a white woman and moving to the West. Sprite wants decolonize what he deems “his mountain”. Henry and Frannie are white missionaries who claim to be Tanzanian. As the four journey towards the roof of Africa, who gets to reach Uhuru, and who gets left behind?
Cast Size: 4
Uncut
In the fictional village of Kabus in Northern Tanzania, only the men enjoy sex. Tumaini and Chilyawanhu are "happily married": Tumaini daily fulfills her wifely duties, and Chilyawanhu is running for chief-hood. An unexpected change in the family threatens to destroy their fragile illusion of happily ever after.
Cast Size: 5