The Road Theatre Company invites you to join us for a staged reading of Marcus Scott’s Joy Comes in the Morning on Sunday, November 12th, 2023 at 7:30 PM. The reading is a suggested donation of $15

Joy Comes in the Morning was developed in Under Construction 3.

Playwright: Marcus Scott

Director: TBA.

Featuring: TBA.

Joy is a young Black teenage girl in Buffalo, NY with dreams of being a pro-wrestler. She meets Marisol, a second-generation Latina American from New Mexico who wants to be a luchador. The two strike out to prove they can when a major sports entertainment company begins scouting for big personalities to kickstart a web-series for young emerging talent; Joy and Marisol believe they have what it takes. Joy Comes in the Morning explores sexism in the world of contact sports, exploitation, misogynoir, the mythos of strong black women, the stereotypes surrounding them and the strength it takes to shatter the glass ceiling on powerslam at a time.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
MARCUS SCOTT is a playwright, musical theatre writer & journalist. Full-length works include Tumbleweed (finalist: 2017 BAPF & the 2017 Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse; semifinalist: 2022 O’Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), Sibling Rivalries (finalist: 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & 2021 ATHE- KCACTF Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi-finalist: 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2021 New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award; long-listed: 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award), There Goes The Neighborhood (finalist: 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the 2019 Bushwick Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: 2023 BAPF) & Cherry Bomb (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence; 2017 finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre). Heartbeat Opera commissioned Scott to adapt Beethoven’s “Fidelio” (Co-writer; The Met Museum; NYT Critic’s Pick). Scott is the recipient of the WTP Rosalind Ayres-Williams Memorial Scholarship (2022-2024). His one-act Sundown Town is slated to be published in Obsidian: Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora: Issue: 48.1 (Forthcoming in 2022/2023).