Rasheeda Speaking (off-Broadway)

Joel Drake Johnson’s brilliant contemporary dark comedy-drama 'Rasheeda Speaking' arrived Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre complex in 2015 under the banner of The New Group, generating immense national media profile. The real-time, textually rich psychological thriller unfolds entirely inside the sterile reception office room of a midwestern corporate medical clinic, tracking two female administrative clerks—one white and one Black—who become ensnared in a cutthroat, cold-blooded campaign of corporate surveillance and micro-aggressions engineered by their doctor. Directed by Cynthia Nixon, it starred Tonya Pinkins.