A STORY ABOUT LOVING AND LONGING IN A COMMUNITY OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS.
LAGNIAPPE
Written by C.A. Johnson
Directed by Eric Ting
Once home to sharecroppers, the Bunche Village subdivision outside of New Orleans is now made up of their suburban descendants who find community at the local corner store. Both harrowing and hilarious, LAGNIAPPE follows their day-to-day lives in this story about loving and longing.
Saturday, July 11
Symphonic Hall at Marist University
8:00pm
LAGNIAPPE is presented with permission from Manhattan Theatre Club and is commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club.
C.A. Johnson | Playwright
C.A. Johnson is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Metairie, Louisiana. Her plays include ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS (MCC Theater), THIRST (2017 Kilroys List, CATF), THE CLIMB (Cherry Lane Mentor Project, InterAct Theatre Company), THE WITNESSES (Chautauqua Theater Company), I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW, SOMEBODY’S BODY, and LAGNIAPPE. Most recently, she was awarded the Horton Foote Award by the Dramatists Guild and Helen Merrill Award by the New York Community Trust. She is currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists and was previously the Tow Playwright in Residence at MCC Theater, the 2018 P73 Playwriting Fellow, a Van Lier Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Core Writer at The Playwrights Center, and Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow. C.A. was nominated for a 2026 NAACP Image Award and a 2026 WGA Award for her writing on the hit Netflix series The Beast in Me.