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IMPACT

Ars Nova, 2018 (L to R: Kurt Bouril, Jorge Luna, Russell G. Jones, Jennifer Tsay, Katie Lee Hill, Chinaza Uche, Michelle Beck, Jo Mei, Maechi Aharanwa, Toney Goins. Not pictured: Reynaldo Piniella)

Childhood friends Naomi Xiu and Zack Booker's paths have led them to different worlds — Zack working for an Asian American civil rights group, and Naomi serving as a police officer. But when a gunshot rings out in a stairwell of a Bronx housing project, they become starkly linked — and the reverberations will ripple through their lives, the city and beyond.

6M, 5F

  • WT Theatre Reading, 2016 (dir. Jonathan Schlieman)

  • O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, 2017

  • Ars Nova Play Group Reading, 2018 (dir. Taylor Reynolds)

  • Princess Grace Award finalist, 2019

  • PlayPenn Zoom workshop, 2020 (dir. Miranda Haymon)