under control / utter chaos
a play for 14-ish performers of any gender
After a leading candidate in a student government election gets accused of election interference, the undergraduate council of a small, explosive liberal arts school in the Northeast split into two factions: one insisting on the status quo and one insisting on breaking it
Premiered in 2023 at the Loeb Drama Center, Harvard. Co-directed by myself and Texaco Texeira-Ramos
Workshopped at the 2022 Harvard Black Playwrights’ Festival
Partial Reading at the Loeb Drama Center, Harvard with the 2022 American Repertory Theater interns and dramaturgy team
“Obasi’s script and the performances that elevate it are utterly superb. The show is riotously funny when irreverence is called for, and sober when it needs to be…What begins as a comedic take on an infamous piece of history evolves into a meditation on the moral responsibilities of theatre itself.” - Samantha Chung’s review for The Harvard Crimson
King John
a history play for 14-ish performers of any gender
A supernatural and literarily expansive adaptation/cutting of Shakespeare's King John I created for the Hyperion Shakespeare Company. It is less a "fixing" of the play and more a "smoothing over" of some of it
Premiered in 2022 by the Hyperion Shakespeare Company in the Loeb Drama Center
Face Me
a short play for 5+ performers
Advertising and Abelism in 1993 Canadian Federal Election