After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.

Angelica Cheri is a playwright, bookwriter & lyricist, screenwriter and poet. Her plays include The Seeds of Abraham (Billie Holiday Theatre), The Sting of White Roses (National Black Theatre Festival), Crowndation (National Black Theatre), Berta, Berta (Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre), and The Wiring & the Switches (Geffen Writers Group). Angelica and collaborator Ross Baum received the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical Gun & Powder (Signature Theatre). Angelica is co-writer of the Highway to Heaven series reboot on the Lifetime Network and story producer for Season 2 of Dear… on Apple TV+. Angelica received her BA in Theatre from UCLA, MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, and MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU.

Andi Chapman is a Director, Actor, and Educator.

Ms. Chapman is the Associate Artistic Director of The Ebony Repertory Theatre.

Her stage directing credits include: Macbeth and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye at A Noise Within, “This Bright Wilderness “(A celebration of Black Theater at the Mark Taper Forum) “ SHE” World premiere at the Anteaus Theatre; the critically acclaimed Native Son at Anteaus & Amp; Kirk Douglas Theatre, garnering Best Director nominations (Stage Raw & Broadway World). Ebony Repertory Theatre’s The Gospel at Colonus which garnered 14 Ovation Nominations including Best Play & Best Play Direction, and won the 2016 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Production. Others include the world premiere of BOTH AND (a play about laughing while Black). At Boston Court; The Abuelas, A Winters Tale, Mockingbird, As it is in Heaven, The Ninth Wave, The Actor’s Co-op Steel Magnolias (for which she garnered a Best Director Award), The Dutchman, A Summer Memory, and a host of others.

Film: The Three Phases of Isa. The award-winning short films Memorial St, Elijah’s song, and Why.

As an Actress her television, film, and stage credits include recurring on shows like 911 and The Orville HTGAWM, Criminal Minds, NCIS, SMLF, Shameless, Glee, Dexter, 24, Six Feet Under, andShort Cuts. The Lower Depths, Blood Wedding.

An Adjunct Professor, she currently is teaching for Film/Theatre Acting at Azusa Pacific University. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of the New York High School for the Performing Arts. B.F.A./ The City College of New York’s Davis Center for the Performing Arts. M.F.A./ The Yale School of Drama. An alumna of The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women.

Andi is also a selected participant of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

with DeJuan Christopher and Kacie Rogers

Produced by Chris Fields and Joy DeMichelle

Scenic design | Amanda Knehans

Costume design | Wendell Carmichael

Lighting design | Andrew Schmedeke

Sound design | Jeff Gardner

Production stage manager | Bianca Rickheim