Written by:  Keith Josef Adkins

Directed by: Carla Stillwell – Resident Director

 

The family real estate business just gets tougher with the deteriorating economy. There are properties to maintain, addicts to evict, and family egos to manage. Napoleon Pedigrew works hard to preserve his rough and tumble reputation as a business mogul, but soon learns his sons Dexter and Z do not share his methods of persuasion. With the most lucrative real estate deal of their lives looming, how long can a father’s controlling grasp fuel the family business?

The Last Saint on Sugar Hill explores gentrification and  family loyalty, and bodes the question…Who really pays the price for progress?

 

READ THE REVIEWS: Chicago Theater Blog, WBEZ Dueling Critics, Chicago Reader.

 

 

 

 

KEITH JOSEF ADKINS is a playwright and screenwriter.  His plays include THE FINAL DAYS OF NEGRO-VILLE, a commission  from ACT in Seattle, THE DANGEROUS, a commission from The Public Theater,  SAFE HOUSE, a commission honoring August Wilson from the Alliance Theater  (Goodman Theater New Stages), FAREWELL MISS COTTON (Black Dahlia Theater – Los Angeles), PITBULLS, (Bay Area Playwrights Festival- Honorable Mention), HOLLIS MUGLEY’S ONLY WISH (NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival), COBRA NECK (Humana Festival), ON THE HILLS OF BLACK AMERICA, among others.

His awards include a 2010 Gateway commission from the Obie Awardwinning Epic Theatre, a 2010 A Contemporary Theatre/Hansberry Project Commission, a 2009 New Professional Theater Playwright Award, a 2008 Kesselring Fellowship nomination, Richard Sherwood Distinguished Emerging Theater Artist Award, a Van Lier Fellowship with NYTW, and a Sloan Science Foundation Playwriting Grant. Keith has been published in Humana Festival 2003 – The Complete Plays, Playscripts, and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2005.

Keith worked as a writer on the CW hit comedy GIRLFRIENDS. His feature script THE DISAPPEARING is in development with SimonSays Entertainment (2010 Sundance’s Night Catches Us with Anthony Mackie).

He has blogged on culture and the arts for TheRoot.com and has made radio appearances on NPR, BBC Worldservice Radio, among others.  Keith is also co-artistic director of The New Black Fest, a festival of new and provocative works from the Diaspora. Slated for October 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

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