NHP alum Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj spent his time at The New Harmony Project’s Annual Writers’ Residency working on a new draft of wating: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts. The play will now receive a reading through the HB Studio Residency.

waiting: a queer black tragicomedy in two acts is loosely and queerly inspired by Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. In waiting, drag queens, Chi-Chi and Cornbread, are trapped on the rooftop of a small drag club called “Anal” which is partially submerged under water. The club is in St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana during the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina late August after the levees break in 2005. Surrounded by a river of dirty water with trash, dead animals, bodies, phone poles, and hungry gators, the two queens wait to be rescued.