by Agyeiwaa Asante
In the basement of the In Guiding Light Charismatic Church of Silver Spring, Maryland, the young women of the Agape Drama Ministry shine at their brightest while performing biblical skits every week to edify their congregation. But when one of their own returns after a long time away with new ideas, their delicate ecosystem and relationships begin to crack.
A moving, profoundly funny coming-of-age story about the stress of college, crises of faith, arrested development, and reckoning with not having all the answers.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Agyeiwaa Asante is a Ghanaian-American playwright and administrator based in the DMV area. Her full-length plays include and have been developed with, DAINTY (BOLD NYC’s 2020 Festival, Mosaic Theatre, Playwrights Realms Scratchpad series, Firehouse Theatre), AGAPE; or The Church Play (Cygnet’s Finish Line Commission, Round House’s Capital New Play Festival, Boston Court Pasadena’s Playwrights Group) and The Half-Sibling Play (Fire This Time Festival, Moxie Theatre). She holds commissions for University of Maryland’s NextNow Festival, Single Carrot Theatre and Round House Theatre. She is the 2020 recipient of The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation’s Ollie Award and a member of The Kilroys Web 2023 and The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn, Class of 2024-25. B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland, College Park. MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego.
