A Dark Comedy

By Inda Craig-Galván

October 24, 2020 at 7:30pm

Patricia and Gerald are quite proud of the life they’ve built in suburban Matteson, Illinois. They host a welcome-to-the-neighborhood dinner party, as they always do, for their new neighbors Regina and Corey. The big difference with these guests: the couple was forcibly relocated to Matteson when Chicago demolished its roughest housing project, Cabrini Green. Classism, internalized racism, and issues of choice/access complicate and threaten to destroy not only dinner but their relationships as well.

About the Playwright

Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan living in Los Angeles, where it’s warm. Her playwriting dwells in Chicago stories that explore the breadth and multiplicity of intra-racial conflicts, allegiances, and politics within the African-American community. Female protagonists and a dose of magic/realism are prominent in her work. Plays include Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse) and I Go Somewhere Else (Playwrights’ Arena, Los Angeles). Her work has been developed at Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, OSF’s Black Swan Lab, San Francisco Playhouse, and others. Honors include Kesselring Prize, Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award, Kilroys List, Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Steppenwolf’s The Mix, Blue Ink Playwriting Prize, and Humanitas Prize. Television writing credits: Happy Face, How to Get Away with Murder, The Rookie. MFA in Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California.