BARBECUE

by Robert O’Hara

COMEDY/DRAMA

8 WOMEN, 2 MEN

The O’Mallerys gather in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness forces her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the event becomes raucous and unpredictable as familial stereotypes collide with hard realities. That, and there are two O’Mallery families, one White and one Black. Each appears in different yet similar scenes that create a dialogue about racial and family politics.

Mankind

by Robert O’Hara COMEDY

6 ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)

Mark and Jason were keeping things casual until Jason got pregnant. But, however unplanned the pregnancy was, nothing could be less expected than the chain of events it would set in motion. Robert O’Hara’s audacious, hilarious allegory envisions an uncannily familiar future—one long after women have gone extinct from centuries of mistreatment— where man’s capacity to eff everything up soars to new heights.

“A daring, topical comedy! The viciousness of MANKIND is perhaps its best quality.”

—New York Times

ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN

by Robert O’Hara

DRAMA

3 WOMEN, 3 MEN, 2 GENDER-NEUTRAL

ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN is a cross between Jacobean tragedy and Dr. Strangelove, a futuristic political satire set in the year 2063. Thom Valentine, the first openly-gay President of the United States, faces a host of problems: an imminent civil war, the threat of an African invasion, an adulterous First Gentleman, and zombies in the basement of the White House! With his power, his marriage, and the nation’s well-being at stake, he must decide what he cares most about saving…and at what cost.

Robert O’Hara is a playwright and director who has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award. His plays ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN and BARBECUE premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theatre and The Public Theatre, respectively. Other plays include MANKIND, BOOTYCANDY and INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY.

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