←Recommendations of Hometown Boy

Actor's Express presented the World Premiere of this play in 2021. Our audiences loved its trenchant and atmospheric storytelling rooted in Southern Gothicism. It is a special play with beautifully complex characters. The play drips with imagery and metaphor in the best possible way. If you enjoy stories about long-buried secrets bubbling to the surface, you really can't do much better than Hometown Boy. I love, love, love this play. -- Freddie Ashley, Artistic Director, Actor's Express

A compelling and unsettling examination of confronting secrets, the complexities of small town life, personal and political power dynamics, sexual assault and its aftermath and impact on a person's relationships past and present, and the intersection of those things with race, class, and gender. All of the characters here are fully fleshed out and James, in particular, is an engaging central figure to track and trace. Threaded throughout are extremely effective visual/aural metaphors and some striking stage imagery! I'd love to see this in production!

The use of the stinking garbage hiding in the basement in this play is absolutely brilliant. This is such a messy play about confronting the past and secrets and how everyone has a different reaction when things come to light. This one is gonna sit with me for a long time.

Hometown Boy by Keiko Green was part of the 2020 NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, a partnership between the Kennedy Center Education Department (the American College Theatre Festival) and Stanford University’s National Center for New Plays