Money Shot

by Dhari Noel '25 MFA
directed by Josephine Miller '24

Thursday, May 2: 5:00 PM
Saturday, May 4: 5:00 PM
Sunday, May 5: 8:30 PM

Tickets will be available online beginning
at 9AM the morning of each performance. 

Ashamu Dance Studio
83 Waterman Street
Providence RI 02912

Maximus and Rex could be porn stars if they could just time their orgasms. Aura’s figured it all out and is finally about to win best female performer of the year. Unaware of each other but locked in the same American house of desire and power, all are haunted by Sambo, star of the old stag film we all pretend to not know. Can two teen activists get us out of this mess? Or is a haint doomed to keep fucking its hauntees?
 

Dhari Noel (he/him/they/them/Dhari) is a Queer Black-Caribbean-Harlemite playwright/performer/educator. Dhari’s writing often explores the incoherence of race, the failures of gender, and inherited ways of being. As a teacher, Dhari uses storytelling, social justice, and interdisciplinary studies, all in an effort to examine systems of power.
Readings and performances of Dhari’s work have been lucky to find generous support at several artistic homes. Recent plays include: Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest @ Ars Nova, Brown University); Man Made, Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking/The Wild Project); Sweet Mess, Exorcism for The DEI Practitioner, The Women Who Dance… (Cherry Picking); Introduce Yourself, and Keep The Orange (ECFS).
Dhari performs in Dhari’s own pieces and has had the pleasure of collaborating with many dear friends. Recent performances include Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan (ANTfest @ Ars Nova, Brown University); Man Made, Spirit Junkie (Cherry Picking, The Wild Project); Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr); In The Penal Colony (Next Door @NYTW); The Essential Ella Maythorne (Dixon Place); Telegraph Bois (ANTfest @Ars Nova).
In the summer of 2023, Dhari was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference and an Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow at Lambda Literary’s writing retreat. Dhari’s graduate studies are supported by an Adele Kellenberg Seaver 1949 Fellowship in Creative Writing. Dhari received a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at Brown University. Dhari is adjusting but misses the Harlem noises. www.dharinoel.com

Josephine Miller is a senior undergraduate at Brown University concentrating in Theatre Arts with a focus on directing. Josie’s most recent directorial work includes The Thin Place, psychopsychotic, or everyone at yale is a goddamn sociopath!, The Pharm House, and Do You Feel Anger? Brown/Trinity credits include Alabaster, One Flea Spare, and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play. Josie has had the pleasure of working at theatres in New York and Atlanta such as Clubbed Thumb, Actor’s Express Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre Company. Josie is working to complete a Theatre Arts and Performance Studies honors thesis on the convergence of women’s issues, body horror, and satire in new plays.