Home's Kitchen follows the seemingly separate lives of Marianne Rose, a young and disillusioned obituary writer, and Richard Davenport, a TV celebrity chef who seemingly has it all. When Mari's parents divorce in her last semester of college, she throws her career, her love life, and her relationship with her dad away. Richard, a gay man raised under a Catholic mindset, must learn to accept himself in order to save his crumbling relationships to love, career, and family. Home's Kitchen is a story of home, passion, and food for the soul.

🌎 “Home’s Kitchen” is being developed as part of international producing and licensing agency Broadway DNA’s innovative new play pipeline model aimed at connecting new plays (and the artists who help shape them) to prosperous “post premiere” life. The play will premiere in New Orleans followed by a separate production in New York and international licensed productions around the world. 🌎

Five performances will run Thursday through Sunday, June 6-9, 2024 at NOCCA’s Nims Blackbox Theatre.

Broadway DNA has currently raised $20,000 to produce this world premiere new play, but we need your help to reach our goals. In doing so, we plan to support, connect, and provide our community of theatre artists with fair pay, quality design, and future global impact.

💲Our funds go directly towards:

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Maeve Aurora Chapman (Playwright/Director) is a stage and screen director, writer, and actor. Recently, she has directed her original works A Woman of No Importance (Central Square Theater Cambridge), and Vera, or the Nihilists (Emerson College.) Her film credits include Mr. Roys' Bicycle Repair Shop (Director, Producer), Blue (creator, actor), and Coda (Actor, Oscar Winning Best Picture). Maeve's work focuses on LGBTQ+ rights, the meaning of home, and emotional abuse. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Dyon Collective.

Natalie Jean Rine (Producer) is a New Orleans-born, NYC-based producer, author, and founder of international producing and licensing agency Broadway DNA, where she is passionate about connecting theatre artists to international cultural and economic resources. She brings experience in global IP management for entertainment companies including Peanuts Worldwide and Broadway productions and tours throughout the US and Asia. A proud member of the American and International Theatre Critics Association, her writing and research activities include “Devising, Decolonizing, and Disrupting American Musical Theatre Aural Anatomy Through the Playlist Musical” (Critical Stages/Scènes critiques), “Immersive Theatre as Christian Liminality” (Robyn Rafferty Mathias Research Conference), and “A Study on the Strategic Advancement of Musical Theatre Performance Between Korea and the US” (Yonsei University).

✺ UPCOMING PLANS for our world premiere ✺

During our rehearsal process, we will be engaging with established restaurants and local culinary experts for potential cast workshops and on-stage sponsorship opportunities to ground the work of our cast in community.

We plan to expand our community outside of the rehearsal room and into new spaces with show-centric partnerships, particularly working with LGBT, HIV/AIDS, and under-served and under-represented organizations to provide community service and ticket exchanges.

Featuring experimental "creative captioning" integrated in the set, this design concept will provide artists & audiences with a new way to engage in language and hearing accessible performance.