OHIO STATE MURDERS portrays Suzanne Alexander, a fictional African-American writer whose life both is and is not like her author’s. When Suzanne enters Ohio State in the 1950's, little does she know that the safe haven of academia conceals forces of racism. Years later, Suzanne is invited to return to the University to talk about the violence in her writing. A dark mystery unravels. Past and present intertwine in this lyrical, spellbinding story of Suzanne's confrontation with racial hatred, loss and love.

One of our theatre’s most remarkable visionaries, the African-American playwright Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) writes intensely dramatic stage poems, fluid in form, that leap across time and culture. Though they tell stories of violence, her works are steeped in an astonishing tender melancholy. LisaGay Hamilton played on Broadway in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. For her performance in Athol Fugard's Valley Song, Ms. Hamilton won an OBIE, the Clarence Derwent and a Drama Desk nomination. She co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning, The Practice. Evan Yionoulis directed the New York premiere of Howard Brenton's Sore Throats for Theatre for a New Audience and has directed at Lincoln Center Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, and the New York Shakespeare Festival.

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