WINGS // WATERMELON is an original play with music, presented in a hybrid format that weaves together a reading with fully staged scenes, brought to life by a dedicated ensemble of artists. This show is the thesis work of playwright Mo Holmes at Columbia University, and your support means the world to us. This fundraiser exists because great work deserves fair compensation. Every dollar raised goes directly toward paying our creative collaborators for two weeks of intensive rehearsal and production.

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ABOUT THE SHOW

WINGS // WATERMELON -- In January 1939, over 1,500 sharecroppers and tenant farmers, including children and the elderly, lived for four days on the side of the Missouri highway, in response to the failings of the New Deal. The play explores this historical protest as both displacement and dis/play of community.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Mo Holmes is a Black queer Southern playwright, librettist, and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised along the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. She is a winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and the Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, a Jane Chambers finalist, and a two-time O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist. Her work has been developed and presented by The Bushwick Starr, Playwrights’ Center, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, The Fire This Time Festival, and others nationwide.