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Reckless Black Dropouts.

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by Kenndall Wallace

Play, 1m 4f

Four Black college dropouts — Naima, Raymond, Camille, and Jordan — attempt to return to their alma mater through the school’s groundbreaking “Bring Black Kids Back” Initiative. Spearheaded by the university's DEI department co-head Nakhia, who's as overworked as she's underpaid, the BBKB, and the dropouts, are her sole responsibility.

However, in order to return to the university, each student must first explain the reasoning behind their choice to drop out — confronting their own traumas of collegiate racism along the way. As the dropouts bond, vent, and work through deeply laden emotions, they must ultimately make the choice of whether or not to go through with re-enrollment; or back out of the program, living up to the stereotype of the “Reckless Black Dropout.”

by Kenndall Wallace

Play, 1m 4f

Four Black college dropouts — Naima, Raymond, Camille, and Jordan — attempt to return to their alma mater through the school’s groundbreaking “Bring Black Kids Back” Initiative. Spearheaded by the university's DEI department co-head Nakhia, who's as overworked as she's underpaid, the BBKB, and the dropouts, are her sole responsibility.

However, in order to return to the university, each student must first explain the reasoning behind their choice to drop out — confronting their own traumas of collegiate racism along the way. As the dropouts bond, vent, and work through deeply laden emotions, they must ultimately make the choice of whether or not to go through with re-enrollment; or back out of the program, living up to the stereotype of the “Reckless Black Dropout.”

About the Author

Kenndall Wallace loves to write. She was an inaugural winner of the Farmers' Alley Theatre Lumen Playwriting Competition, a Broadcast Education Association winner for her feature-length screenplay, an LTA One-Act Playwriting Award winner, and has been honored with the Julie Jensen, Lorraine Hansberry, and Nathan Louis Jackson Playwriting awards between years 2024 and 2025.

She's been a 2-time member of the Black Playwrights' Gathering in Washington, D.C., a Torch Literary Arts Fellow, a DQT Classics in Color fellow, and a top 30 playwright for the 50th Concord Off-Off Broadway Festival.

As a playwright, Kenndall's focus has been on creating stories that challenge, uplift, and promote the Black diasporic community — and as a person, she enjoys reading, exploring new places, and accidentally getting lost in those places.