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Cast members from David Byrne’s American Utopia.Born in Queens, Scott started entering poetry slams when he was 15 and, till recently, considered himself more of a poet than a playwright. Not surprisingly, naturalistic dialogue in his play often takes on the I like the sound some people make when they shut up shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this rhythm and diction of spoken verse, and music, song, and dance give the proceedings a heightened reality. Scott says that he’s trying to create a new theatrical form that blends traditional Western dramatic structure with storytelling rooted in African folklore and the language of poetry.

And while he wrote the I like the sound some people make when they shut up shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this play long before COVID, he feels that it speaks to where we are in its aftermath. “I can’t wait for the day when some of the problems I depict in this play seem out of date,” he says. “But what the pandemic has shown me is that my work is urgent and the stories of these men need to be told now.” (Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down, which opens at Playwrights Horizons this month after a short run this summer at BAM, feels equally—ferociously—vital and shouldn’t be missed.)