J. Alphonse Nicholson

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.

Reformed ex-convict Walt Manigan returns home to rebuild his family with the love of his life, Ketta. His path leads him to a boxing gym inside a D.C. youth recreation center about to be closed. There, he works under the wise coach Slim to mentor a group of boys to train for the junior national boxing tournament, all leading to a showdown between best friends Quincey and Peanut as they battle for a spot on the U.S. Junior Olympic Team.

A poetic, emotionally expansive father-son story about Black family, grace, imagination, and the hope that love can transform even the most fragile relationships into something more healing and beautiful.

Seemingly opposite street hoopers, Jeremy, an injury prone former star, and Kamal, a has-been prodigy, team up to take one final shot at living out their dreams.

In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.

A narcoleptic professor believes she witnessed a murder in her neighbor's home at the hands of a popular rapper. She becomes obsessed with finding the truth and is hell-bent on taking him down before he turns his wrath on her and her friends.

What really happened to all the dads that went to get milk and never came back? A father’s innocent errand leads him to an encounter with an enigmatic figure called 'The Milk Man', where things quickly go sour.

Samuel Allen's life collapses, but he wants to pursue his childhood goals and become a preacher. To do this, the rock n roll star has to fight against his past demons.

A feel-good road movie about a broken man who lets the hitchhikers he picks up determine his direction and destiny. Everything changes when he meets a free-spirited woman who guides him on a journey of self-discovery while hiding a secret of her own.

The story follows a corporate-climbing playboy who falls for a girl-next-door office temp and a high-powered executive. He must choose between love and advancing his career.

This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.

A young black man named Sparrow is on a quest to find his mother, his home, and his true self.

The social upheaval of the mid-1960s converged with football at Michigan State University. This is the story of the first fully integrated college football national title team that forever changed the face of the country and the sport.

On her way to the most important meeting of her career, severe weather forces a New York executive to share a rental car with her former nemesis, her ex-fiancé's mother, only to discover that the mother is hiding a major secret.

A middle-aged ex-con hired to manage his nephew's fledgling music career is caught between working for and taking down the neighborhood's crime boss.

Dreaming of a better future, an aspiring young DJ confronts his family struggles in the streets of Brooklyn.

A conservative and socially awkward optometrist decides to take a leap of faith on quest for fulfillment in a male companion at the urging of her friends as a last-ditch effort to find happiness. Her arduous journey leads her to a potential young suitor, but more important down a path to self-discovery.

Tasked with installing self-service manicure stations at a nail salon, an automation technician meets a Vietnamese American nail tech whose job he is there to replace.

At a lavish party, Jared presents plans to replace an arts district with a smart city, facing opposition from his brother and an arts commissioner. A mysterious illusionist shows them the area's past and future.

An examination of mental health told through the intense world of a chef navigating trauma, identity, and artistry in the heat of a high-stakes kitchen.

Plot TBA. It is set in the eerie backdrop of Louisiana cane fields and plantations.

J. Alphonse Nicholson, who also directs, provides a powerful performance in this absorbing one-man play telling the five stories of Abel Green, a soul destined to keep coming back to the world because there is something his soul needs to learn.