Link to full interview in bio. Join us tonight at 6 for my presentation of Suburban Black Girl @ojaiplays! Director @joyrebelsolo Dramaturg @zhariapls. Posted @withregram • @ojaiplays The next playwright interview in our 2022 OPC interview series is Zakiya Young @officialzakiyayoung! Zakiya fills us in on how the idea to write her play, SUBURBAN BLACK GIRL, originated, and on getting acclimated to being a playwright this year since her last experience at OPC as an actor. Watch the full interview on YouTube at the link in our bio! Join us for Zakiya's play and many others. Our New Works Festival is on now through Sunday, August 14. See SUBURBAN BLACK GIRL on Fri, August 12 at 6:00 pm. Tickets available at the link in our bio. About SUBURBAN BLACK GIRL: Zakiya Young: poster child for racial reconciliation. She code switches with lightning speed. White sorority? Like, no prob. A Black and Latino church with a White pastor? She’ll praise God in Spanish! Broadway? Is it color blind casting or an all-Black show? Doesn’t matter because this suburban Black girl has mastered the art of being ‘non-threatening.’ But when COVID lockdowns put a spotlight on police killing unarmed Black people, everything she suppressed begins seeping out like an infected wound.