The Write Choice Receives 2 Distinguished Achievement Awards From The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Daysha’s newest full-length play, The Write Choice, received The 2021 Lorraine Hansberry and The 2021 Rosa Parks distinguish achievement awards from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Write Choice, follows an insecure, young black writer who suffers a tragic loss in the family that sends her back to her childhood home. It is here that she discovers a photograph that inspires her to write her first play with the purpose of submitting it to a prominent new works program up in Portland.

To everyone's shock, she wins. But when she shows up for the staged reading and discovers that her cast was not what she had originally envisioned for the piece, she is pushed into finding her own voice to ask for what she really wants amidst navigating the complicated racial power structures of the theater development staff.

Daysha developed the play for 4 weeks in collaboration with New York Theatre Workshop as part of UCLA’s New Play Festival.

It is available to read on New Play Exchange and to watch on YouTube.