I am excited to share that my one-act play Reclassified has been selected for the Staged Reading Series at the 15th Annual Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, taking place September 3rd - 5th.

The play began its journey in 2024 as Shades of Honor, a ten-minute work selected for Rapid Lemon Productions' Variations Project under the theme "Variations on Courage." Since then, the story has continued to grow and evolve into Reclassified, a larger theatrical work exploring questions of race, identity, friendship, and belonging.

Set on a segregated Army Air Forces base in late 1945, Reclassified follows PFC Lee Walters as he discovers that a key piece of his military record has been mysteriously—and dangerously—altered. What begins as a bureaucratic mystery becomes an examination of racial passing, loyalty, and the personal cost of navigating a nation divided by race and color.

Being selected for the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival marks an exciting milestone in the play's development. I look forward to sharing Reclassified with audiences, artists, and theatre professionals from across the country and continuing the conversation around the themes at the heart of this work.