Tumbleweed by Marcus Scott

Tumbleweed

Stage Play · Drama · 85 pages

Following an interracial family living in a townhouse within the Morningside Park area of New York’s Upper West Side over the course of a weekend, TUMBLEWEED is a slice of life drama about a young girl named Willow whose off-putting natural hair combined with both her family’s open acceptance of it and lack of maintenance, as well as her blooming wo...

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Marcus Scott

New York, NY

Marcus Scott is a dramatist & journalist. Full-length works include "Tumbleweed" (finalist: 2017 BAPF & the 2017 Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse; semifinalist: 2022 O’Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), "Sibling Rivalries" (finalist: 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Confe...

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Tumbleweed was a finalist for the 2015-2016 I Am Soul Playwright Residency program under the National Black Theater in Harlem. It received a staged reading at the National Black Theater in Harlem for the Keep Soul Alive 2015-2016 Reading Series in November 2015. Presented as part of The Bechdel Group’s Winter/Spring Reading Series (2017). Presented as a reading as part of Scratch Night at the Theatre for the New City (2017). Presented as a reading as part of the BlackBoard Reading Series Community Night (2017). Tumbleweed was a semi-finalist for the exclusive 2016 Premiere Stages Play Festival. Tumbleweed was a semi-finalist for the 2015-2016 Random Access Workshop Readings. Tumbleweed was a finalist for the Playwrights Foundation's 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Tumbleweed was a finalist for the 2017 Austin Playhouse Festival of New American Plays. Tumbleweed was a finalist for the New Play Development Workshops with the 2017 Black & Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University. Tumbleweed was a semifinalist for the 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship Award. Tumbleweed was a finalist for the 2017/2018 Humanitas Play LA Workshop. Tumbleweed was presented in a 3-day workshop production at Dixon Place in August 2018. Tumbleweed was a finalist for the 2019 Madison New Works Lab at James Madison University. Presented a scene from Tumbleweed at “The Liberation of Black Intimacy: A Scene Study Workshop” by Creators of Color Collective at Arts On Site NYC (June 4, 2019). Tumbleweed was a finalist for the 2020 SETC/Stage Rights Ready to Publish Award. Tumbleweed is a finalist for Theater at the Y 2020-2021 Season (Theme: Humor). Tumbleweed was slated to premiere at the Theater at the 14th Street Y in May 2021. It was postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tumbleweed was a semifinalist for the 2022 American Blues Theater Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Tumbleweed received development at the New American Voices reading series at Queens Theatre (April 23, 2022). Tumbleweed was a semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference.