Blood Work

Past Show

June 26-30, 2024

When Neisha, a panicked mother-to-be, seeks help at the hospital, a bold team of nurses administers cutting-edge treatment. Despite her mother advocating for more conventional remedies, the medical team sends Neisha propelling into an Afro-futuristic odyssey through past and present. As Neisha grapples with this unconventional antidote, she learns healing happens in mysterious ways. With the baby’s life in the balance, ten generations of women unite to confront a cure that transcends the physical, co-laboring to pave a healthy path for the future.

Co-Producer

Chelsea Factory

Kristen Adele Calhoun

Playwright

She is a writer for HBO’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s SULA created and helmed by showrunner, Shannon M. Houston. Kristen is also on the writing team for BLKNWS directed by Kahlil Joseph, produced by A24 and Participant. She is an I AM SOUL Playwriting Resident at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre, the founding Program Director of ArtChangeUS, an Assistant Editor of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color and a co-producer of InterFest, an intersectional arts and ideas festival that began at the Harlem School of the Arts.

Kristen is the co-curator of BLKSPACE along with InterFest co-producer, Nikki Vera. Time at BLKSPACE is granted to Black artists whose work forwards Black liberation. BLKSPACE seeks to simultaneously provide an expansive dreaming space for the individual and a collective practice ground for freedom.

Tiffany Nichole Greene

Director

Tiffany Nichole Greene is thrilled to be in community and collaboration with NBT. Her most recent credits include Kristen Adele Calhoun’s Black Cypress Bayou at the Geffen Playhouse; world premiere of York Walker’s Covenant at Roundabout Theatre Company (New York Times Critic’s Pick); Jonathan Larson’s Rent at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Hamilton: An American Musical (National Tour Resident Director); world premiere of Steph Del Rosso’s 53% Of at Second Stage Theater; Christina Ham’s Nina Simone: Four Women at Arizona Theatre Company; world premiere of Vichet Chum’s High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest at the Alley Theatre; Invincible, a new musical, at The Wallis Annenberg, working alongside Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo; Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders at the Goodman Theatre; and Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiations and Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember with Octopus Theatricals (New York Times Critic’s Pick).

Next up for Tiffany is the world premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Bad Kreyol at New York’s Signature Theatre. Tiffany is a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, a Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, and a member of SDC. She holds an MFA from Brown University/ Trinity Rep. www.tiffanynicholegreene.com