The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth
Written By: Peppur Chambers-Soraci
Directed by: Marya Mazor
2022
Chester, a modern-day vigilante property bounty-hunter has found a way to take back what was stolen, one plot at a time. Finding his first clients, he reaches out to "Pooky" and his family to reclaim what a certain boll weevil has taken. And now, it's on.
The Boll Weevil & Chester Higgensworth is a serialized one-act comedy (if it were funny) written by Peppur Chambers-Soraci and commissioned by Lower Depth Theatre. This is the first installment in the series. Catch more of Chester and the gang's adventures in the next episode. Coming soon.
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Cast
Emmy Silver – Yvonne Huff Lee
Patricia Livingston – Veralyn Jones
Chester Higgensworth – Gregg T. Daniel
Pooky Silver – Jason Delane
Stage Directions & Prison Guards – Tamarra Graham
Creative & staff
Playwright – Peppur Chambers-Soraci
Director – Marya Mazor
Sound Design – David B. Marling
Editing – Podcast Haven
Produced by – Lower Depth Theatre, Artistic Director Gregg T. Daniel, and Managing Director, Courtney Oliphant
Project Coordinator – AJ Dinsmore
Program Assistant – Giovanny Camarena
Artistic Associates – Jason Delane Lee, Yvonne Huff Lee, and Veralyn Jones
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About the Playwright
Peppur is an international writer/producer/educator and the founder of Brown Betties™, a women’s empowerment brand.
During the pandemic, she found her way back to theater. Selected for Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s “Pandemic Plays”, she cites this experience of writing and presenting “For the Love of You” as one that helped her get through the early wave of 2020s pandemic shock. A new member of Antaeus Playwrights Lab, she’s currently writing a radio play based on white supremacy as her effort to speak up during this current turbulent shift toward equality. A MovingArts MADLab 2021 cohort, Peppur is developing her play “F/K/A Meridian”, which looks at black women and mental health. Additionally, having been accepted to Circle X Theatre Evolving Playwrights Group, Peppur is working on another new play, a ghost story of sorts based upon unexplained fertility. She recently worked on a new media film project shot virtually and Covid-safe of which she co-wrote, co-produced and directed, titled “Do Something”. It is a story about protest, privilege, and power.
Peppur is also a fiction writer. Selected for the 2019 Squire Foundation Artist in Residence Program, she’s working on an ancestry book based on her published short story “Ancestry.com” published online in Boned. She’s also completing the second installment to her published novella, “Harlem’s Awakening” available on Amazon.
In the US and abroad, Ms. Chambers has taught English, Journalism, Creative Writing and led theater workshops. Learn more by reading her blog, penandpeppur.com where she tells stories of heroes, including her own.
about the director
MARYA MAZOR has collaborated with LDT multiple times. Marya’s February 2020 production of Fun Home won the Ovation Award for Best Production of a Musical. Her productions have received multiple LA Times Critic's Pick designations, Ovation Award Nominations, and Stage Raw Award Nominations. She directed Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment for The Geffen Playhouse, Tribes at The Chance Theater (OC Register Best Play 2017) and The Rescued at The Road Theater Company (Stage Raw Award Nominee), as well as Ivy & Bean at South Coast Repertory, Out of Our Father's House for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, That Pretty Pretty... or the Rape Play at Son of Semele, Mad Forest at the Open Fist, The English Bride at the Road, and The Goat. She also directed Aladdin for the Disney Cruise Lines. Her AFI Directing Workshop for Women short film The Winged Man was lauded at festivals worldwide. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and has taught at USC, Pepperdine University, Fordham University, Chapman University, California State University Long Beach and Saddleback College.