She Like Girls

She Like Girls is a coming-of-age, coming-out love story set in Newark in the early 2000s. Kia, an African-American teenager, finds herself falling in love with her classmate, Marisol. While supporting Marisol through a health crisis, the two share a romantic relationship. The girls strain to keep their involvement a secret from their conservative mothers and their gay-bashing classmates. Kia becomes more and more vocal about her sexual identity, but pays a high price for declaring her independence. Though inspired by a real-life hate-crime (the murder of a lesbian teenager in Newark in 2003), the tone of Hutchinson’s play is mostly that a of hip, sharp romantic comedy like Issa Rae’s Insecure or Donald Glover’s Atlanta.

She Like Girls is presented through special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.