The Silver Thread
a full-length drama
4w / 4-6m (with doubling)
In Alabama 1845, three enslaved women, Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy arrive at the makeshift medical lab of J. Marion Sims. What happens there, over the next four years, changed the course of modern medicine and altered the lives of all who entered. Race, ethics, class and sex collide in this true story of American history.
Awards and Honors:
2021 Women Playwrights International Conference Montreal - Official Program/Featured Selection (postponed until 2022)
2020 New American Voices/Landing Theatre - Finalist
2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival - Semi-Finalist
2020 National Playwrights Conference/Eugene O’Neill Theater Center - Semi-Finalist
2013 Great Plains Theatre Conference StageWrite Honorarium Recipient
2012 Hudson Valley Writer’s Center’s contest: Setting the Stage
“Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THE SILVER THREAD, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.”