PIPELINE at American Stage

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TEACH. OUT LOUD. Nya, a single mother teaching at an inner-city public school, wants whats best for her teenage son, Omarieven if it means sending him to a private school far from their neighborhood. But when an explosive classroom incident threatens Omaris future, Nya must reevaluate the choices shes made as a parent and educator. In this lyrical and timely drama, acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore, compassionately probing the limits of our education system and a mothers fight to give her son a future without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.an homage to such authors as Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka and yet firmly the product of a unique, deeply resonant sensibility. Deadline

Authors

• Dominique Morisseau