[hieroglyph] (2021)

Plot Summary

Involuntarily displaced in Chicago two months post-Katrina, 13-year-old Davis wrestles with the cultural landscape of a new city and school community while secretly coping with the PTSD of an assault at the Superdome. With her mother still in New Orleans committed to the fight for Black land ownership and her father committed to starting a new life in the Midwest, divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart. Will Davis be left hanging in the balance? [hieroglyph] traverses the intersection of environmental racism, sexual violence, and displacement, examining the psychological effects of a state-sanctioned man-made disaster on the most vulnerable members of the Katrina diaspora.

Full Cast & Characters

Jamella Cross

Davis Despenza Hayes

Safiya Fredericks

Ms. T.

Khary L. Moye

Ernest Hayes

Anna Marie Sharpe

Leah

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