The recurring acts of racial profiling and police brutality have damaging effects on the psyche of all people of African descent.  
 
Imagine how it effects immigrants who have left their homelands with a dream of a "better life" here in America.  As a first-generation Haitian-American, I used to wonder, "Would life be better if we moved back to Haiti?" "What can I do to protect my loved ones?" In response to my own sense of fear, frustration, and disillusionment I was inspired to write THE HUNTING SEASON.  
 
My play tells the story of an immigrant Haitian family’s efforts to avert fate. A Haitian mother has a premonition that her son will be hunted and killed by police on his 18th birthday.  This magical, hopeful play explores all the measures this family takes to alter his destiny. 
 
My journey with this play started while I was a graduate student at Yale School of Drama. My initial source was my younger brother's experience of "Existing in America While Being a Black Man." Over the years, a never-ending series of news reports about racially motivated police brutality has compelled me to go back to the drawing board with the journey of the family in this play. If you are thinking, "Darling - you will never be done with this play.  The scourge continues."  Well, my goal over the years has been to instill hope with this piece.  It took me years to filter through the reality of modern day America, to develop the aspirational story of the "Delacroix" family as told in THE HUNTING SEASON.
 

I am excited to let you know that my company - CONCH SHELL PRODUCTIONS (www.conchshellproductions.com) - is mounting the debut performance of THE HUNTING SEASON in this summer's Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (www.planetconnections.org). 

It takes a team to create theater and we need you on our team as a financial supporter.

Send your tax-deductible donation by June 30th, 2018, and you will guarantee that when our director starts staging our play, I will be able to finance our $10,000 budget for our creative team, crew members, actors, and mounting administrative, marketing, rehearsal space rental and materials costs. 

Thankfully, we have raised $255 from friends.  We need your donations to fund the remaining $9745 budget.

Please be sure to come see how your donation has contributed to the success of "The Hunting Season" at TEATRO LATEA in The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center - 107 Suffolk Street, NY, NY (between Rivington & Delancey).

The performance dates are:
Monday July 16 @5:30pm
Saturday July 21 @ 5:00pm
Sunday July 29 @ 11:15am
Friday August 3 @ 8:30pm
Saturday August 4 @ 4:30pm

For show tickets go to:  www.planetconnections.org.

Thank you in advance, for your generous support.