ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN

by Robert O'Hara

Drama, Full-length

The year is 2050, and the United States is in crisis: The East Coast has ooded, the Midwest has been ravaged in a scramble for resources, and, to top it all off, a rogue battalion of zombies has just emerged from the new Lord President’s basement.

“Bloody, witty, and visually striking, Zombie: The American was an experience I will never forget. O’Hara created a political satire that remained in my thoughts well after I left the theater. That is a response I rarely have.”

—Lauren Katz, DC Theater Arts

“If Zombie: The American is any indication of the caliber of the works yet to come, then the D.C. area is in for quite a ride.” 

—Julieanna Novak, MD Theatre Guide

Character List

(3M, 3W, 2 Any Gender)

LORD PRESIDENT THOMVALENTINE

FIRST GENTLEMANCHASEVALENTINE(Asian or Arab or Latino)

LADY SECRETARY OF STATEJESSICA BLOOM

ROYAL GUARD / ROYAL BUTLER/ ROYAL CHIEF OF STAFF

SECRETARY GENERAL OF UNITED AFRICANNATIONS ABIDEMI/ AFRICAN REBEL LEADER BABIRYE

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GENERAL ALEXANDER/ ZOMBIE MINORITY WHIP

ZOMBIE SPEAKER OF ZOMBIES ZOMBIE CHAIRWOMAN

Time and Setting: A Futuristic American Dystopia.

Tone: Jacobean Dr. Strangelove.

Read a feature article about ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN at American Theatre HERE.

PHOTO: From left, Sarah Marshall, Jessica Frances Dukes, and Tim Getman in Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s “Zombie: The American" by Robert O'Hara. (Photo by Stan Barouh)

Author

Robert O'Hara

ROBERT O’HARA has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award. Broadway: Slave Play (Tony Nomination). Off Broadway: He directed the world premieres of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, Nikkole Salter and Dania Guiria’s In the Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/ Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Kirsten Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale, Baum and Cheri’s Gun and Powder at Signature Theater, Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun at Williamstown Theater Festival, Aziza Barnes’ BLKS at MCC, Inda Craig-Galvan’s Black Superhero Magic Mama at The Geffen Theater, the Universes’ Uni/Son, inspired by the poetry of August Wilson at OSF and Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, as well as his own plays, Mankind, Bootycandy and Insurrection: Holding History...[FULL BIO]