Play Reading Club: FLEX

Join our monthly play reading club! Each month, we gather to discuss a new, exciting or confounding play that has caught our attention. This month, we’re reading FLEX by Candrice Jones

ABOUT THE PLAY

The pressure is on for the 1998 Lady Train high school basketball team—on top of a battle to bring home the championship trophy, it is also college scouting season. But the team’s performance on the court is tested as it ruptures under the weight of its own infighting, and the once-tight players begin to focus on their individual futures. What does it mean to be a Black girl on the brink of freedom and womanhood in a small town in the South? Does honoring your own wants mean sacrificing your friends, family, and team? This funny and frank play about getting a full-court press from life will have audiences cheering.

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Steinberg playwright and educator. Plays include Crackbaby (Wasserstein Prize Nomination) and Flex (developed at the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays; co-world premiered by TheatreSquared and Theatrical Outfit). From 2014-2018, she produced Re-Imagining the Self, a ten-minute play showcase hosted by Little Rock Central High National Historic Site and the Weekend Theater. Fellow at Callaloo for poetry at Brown University and in London; VONA Playwriting Fellow; CalArts MFA Critical Studies recipient; resident fellow at Ground Floor (housed by the Berkeley Rep), the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, MacDowell’s Colony of the Arts; 2019-20 Many Voices Fellow; 2020-21 Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis; and she scheduled to be a resident playwright at Djerassi’s Colony of the Arts in the fall of 2024. Awards: 2023 Kesselring Prize for Playwrighting for Flex, 2022 Celebrate! Maya award.