Being Black Outside

Sisters Vee and Niecy return to their childhood home after their mother dies — just in time for the end of the world. As the Apocalypse begins, and the sisters remember the past and debate the future, they meet their mother’s neighbor and are forced to contend with what it means to be Black…outside.

Developed as a PlayLab for the 2024 GPTC New Play Festival.

ASL interpretation during the June 4th performance.

We're grateful to the generous production sponsors of Being Black Outside: Roger and Kate Weitz, Diane Watson, and Transamerica Foundation.

Vinecia Coleman is a playwright and actor based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, whose artistic aim as a writer is to tell stories that focus on the Black female experience. She was awarded the Playwrights’ Center’s 2025-2027 Many Voices Fellowship and was named as a 2025 Ojai Playwright Conference finalist. Her plays have been developed at the Great Plains Theatre Commons Conference, Boise Contemporary Theatre’s BIPOC Playwright Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab, Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, and others. Her play Christiana Lysistrata had its 2024 premiere at Main Street Players (Miami, FL), and her play Café Au Lait will have its premiere at History Theatre (St Paul, MN) in 2027. As an actor, she has worked at Penumbra Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Jungle Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Playhouse, and more. Vinecia has an MFA from The University of Idaho.