Written & Directed by Monèt Noelle Marshall

Produced by Meg Stein

Director of Photography & Edited by John Laww

Sound Engineered by Nick Wallhauser

Filmed at Shadowbox Studio in Durham, NC

Funded in part by ARPA Arts, Culture & Sustainability (AC&S) Stipend Program at Hayti Heritage Center


Cast (in order of appearance):

Monèt Noelle Marshall

Deandre Sanders

Caitlin Wells

Robin Carmon Marshall

A.J. Williams

Sherrie Tolliver

Boitumelo Makhubele



the department of reparations invites you!

complete the short form below to calculate your reparations package.

What will you do with your reparations?

meet the creator

Monèt Noelle Marshall has been creating worlds and gracing stages since 1999. A theatre kid at heart, Monèt deems her work “rehearsal for the relationship” and uses a multidisciplinary approach to invite people into a deeper sense of belonging - with themselves, each other and the planet.

Through short films that affirm and challenge, community pop-ups that center joy and interactive and immersive performance pieces that shift audiences to witnesses, Monèt’s work stretches the bounds of how art can create, shape and impact community.

Her work has been experienced in St. Ann’s Warehouse, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Northstar Church of the Arts and Mordecai Historic Park. Most recently she has collaborated with African American Policy Forum on Gucci’s Chime for Change zine, Scalawag Magazine, NC Museum of Art, Historic Stagville, City of Raleigh and Columbia University. She has received funding from the NC Arts Council, the Durham Arts Council, Black Spatial Relics, Black on Black Project and ManbitesDog Theater. Her play “Raissoneur” was produced by Wayne State University in 2022 and she won the Del Shores Foundation competition for Best Screenplay for “Knead”, a screenplay she co-wrote.

learn more about her work at monetisart.com

photo credit: derrick beasley

want to tell us how the work made you feel, we’d love to hear from you! got an idea on where this should go next? Hit us up! want to connect us to an org doing reparations work! Holla! connected to an arts funder who loves immersive political art? call us immediately!

contact us

3% Cover the Fee

the work of getting free ain’t free. we welcome support of all kinds and sizes. it will help us further the work and we are grateful in advance.

if you’d like to give a larger donation and need a tax deduction, contact us directly. We will process that gift through our fiscal sponsor.

fund us

the best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. - toni morrison