Br’er Cotton by Tearrance A. Chisholm. A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere from Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble - Directed by Gregg T. Daniel

Lynchburg, Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all of the recent killings, of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14 year old “militant,” incites riots at school and online. More and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, the boys’ anger grows beyond containment while the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one seems to notice but him.A two time award winner at the Kennedy Center in 2016 (Rosa Parks Playwriting Award for Bhavi the Avenger, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for Br’er Cotton), playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm was named a “person to watch” by American Theatre Magazine. As a rising star at Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program he made Variety’s short list of talent for the “future of film, media, and entertainment.” His play Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies had its World Premiere at Mosaic Theatre in Washington, D.C. this year where it received raves from the Washington Post, calling it a “Breathtakingly on-point new comedy…Chisholm makes his own mark, powerfully.” The popularity of this piece has inspired a remount during their 2018 season. The Br’er Cotton cast includes Omette Anassi, Christopher Carrington, Yvonne Huff, Emmaline Jacott, Shawn Law, Dane Oliver, and Jasmine Wright.