“Kimmy” - A Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Radio Play

Commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Theater for Young Audiences
Remounted by the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance

SYNOPSIS: 12-year-old Kemi and her parents, immigrants from Nigeria, moved from Washington, D.C. to a smaller town in Maryland halfway through the school year. On her first day at her new school, her teacher mispronounces her name as “Kimmy,” and in an effort to fit in, Kemi lets it slide. Kemi’s passion and talent for rapping help her make a few new friends, but personal problems and the COVID-19 pandemic that get in the way of Kemi’s new life in a new place as she struggles to negotiate her relationship with her parents, her new friends, and herself.