Coming Next:

Mickey Dee and the Eclipse with Composer Dave Ragland at Washington National Opera. May 22, 2026

Faces in the Flames

Ybor City the Musical

Kumanana

More information at the New Play Exchange Profile.

*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/