Plays, Musicals and Operas

*Mickey Dee and the Eclipse* *Composer Dave Ragland*	Washington National Opera	January 2026 Commission
A solar eclipse impacts the lives of 4 characters in a fast food restaurant. (20 minutes)

*Brathwaite’s Mecca* *Composer Joshua Brown*	American Opera Project	May 2025 Composers & the Voice
Model Clara Lewis’s poses for photographer Kwame Brathwaite who spearheaded the “Black is Beautiful” movement. (20 minutes)

*Forever Entwined* *Composer Kervy Delcy*	American Opera Project	May 2025 Composers & the Voice
A French-Caribbean love triangle. A lighthouse keeper, discovers her husband has fallen for a woman who mends nets on the beach. (20 minutes)

*Faces in the Flames* *Composer Natha Felix*	Atlanta Opera/Opera America 2025 IDEA grant	Workshops 2023 through 2025
Three scenes tell the story of African American photographer Thomas Askew (1847-1914) whose images captured the dignity of African Americans. (60 minutes) https://facesintheflames.com/

*Kumanana*	Gala Hispanic Theater	June 2023 Production
A revue production about Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, two Afro-Peruvian artists and activists who introduced negritude to Peru. (90 minutes) https://www.galatheatre.org/post/kumanana-musical-revue

*Courthouse Bells with* *Composer Mary Watkins*	Boston Opera Collaborative Boston, MA	January 2023 Production
An African American grandmother and her granddaughter fight fear, exhaustion and memories on their way to vote. (10 minutes) https://www.bostonoperacollaborative.org/in-the-studio

*Water Flow*	Remote Theatre	November 2022 Commissioned Zoom Production
A young, pregnant teenager makes a choice to seek out a curandera and find out how her water flows. A poetical exploration of choices we make about life and death. (10 minutes) https://vimeo.com/770849532

*Zora on My Mind with* *Composer Diana Lawrence*	Georgetown Racial Justice Institute Washington, DC	June 2022 Workshop
Chamber musical. Book by Anita Gonzalez. Music and Lyrics by Diana Lawrence. O’Neill Musical Theater Festival Semi-Finalist. Two female interlocutors try to author the story of Key, a woman the famous author Zora Neale Hurston would want to see. (60 minutes)

*Sunset Dreams (Zoom)*	The Vagrancy Blossoming Festival	July 2021 Commissioned Production
A story about African-American women, on a trip to the Caribbean. Themes of memory, ancestry, and family life make up the play’s soul. (90 minutes) https://vimeo.com/598014711

*Ybor City* *Composer Dan Furman*	Brooklyn Tavern Theatre, Art Boundaries Unlimited	Jan- Feb 2020 Production
Book by Anita Gonzalez. Music and Lyrics by Dan Furman. Racial divides and unionism in an historical community of Caribbean cigar workers. (75 minutes) www.yborcitythemusical.com

*The Living Lakes* *Composer Jonathan Girling*	Mellon Global Midwest Links Hall, Chicago IL	June 2018 & October 2017 Production
Devising, Direction and Choreography by Anita Gonzalez and Joel Valentin-Martinez. Multi-disciplinary dance theatre project about African American and Latino migrations in the Midwest between 1915 and 1935. Full production of excerpts. Produced by Humanities Without Walls and Cynthia Bond www.thelivinglakes.com

*Ayanna Kelly* *Composer Errollyn Wallen*	Rhythmcolor Productions The Cell, New York, NY	January 2017 Workshop
Book by Anita Gonzalez and Richard Aellen. Music and Lyrics by Errollyn Wallen. A musical about an Afro-Caribbean woman time traveling through England an NYC. Workshop reading produced by Rhythmcolor Productions. www.ayannakelly.com

*The Anarcha Project*	UC-Berkeley/U of Michigan	March – April 2008 Performances
Devised work with Anita Gonzalez, Petra Kuppers, Carrie Sandahl, and Aimee Cox. Marion Sims’ medical experimentation and the archive. Produced by Olimpias Project. http://liminalities.net/4-2/anarcha/