Press Release - The Request (or Prison Fan Fiction)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rebecca O’Neil, Artistic Director
Email: rebecca@shatteredglassproject.org
Kill Date: 05/23/2025
As part of the 2025 Plays in Progress series, The Shattered Glass Project is thrilled to present The Request (or Prison Fan Fiction) written by Brittney S. Harris , at the MLK FAME Community Center on Friday, May 23, 2025
On the eve of her execution at Jasper Heights Women’s Correctional Facility, Victoria Brown—Inmate 1688—grants a final interview to aspiring writer Ami Wallace. What begins as a formal exchange soon unravels into a web of secrets, blurring guilt and innocence, truth and fiction. The Request (or Prison Fan Fiction) interrogates power, legacy, and the cost of remembrance in a race against time for justice—or a deeper reckoning.
Plays in Progress is a series of staged readings that bring the Seattle theatre community together with emerging playwrights to share new plays, build connections and engage in conversation.
Playwright Brittney S. Harris joins the Plays in Progress series from Virginia, where she teaches at Virgina Tech, with a specialty in Race and Performance, Performance as Activism, and Devised Community-Engaged Theatre. Her scripts, in particular for her solo performances, evaluate how embodied storytelling can be utilized to transform how stories of resilience are recorded, shared, preserved, and spark a conversation to advance social reform and change. Directed by Jordan-Michael Whidbey, The Request (or Prison Fan Fiction) features Felisha Barnes, José Amador, and Aviona Rodriquez Brown.
For more information and to get tickets online visit our website at www.shatteredglassproject.org/2025-plays-in-progress/#request and become an integral part of making these new works of theatre come to life!
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The Shattered Glass Project is a theatre company with the mission to amplify the voices of theatre artists who have been marginalized on the basis of their gender or sex by providing unique opportunities to create and grow professionally. For more information, visit our website at www.shatteredglassproject.org.