RAJENDRA RAMOON MAHARAJ
Director and Artist
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.
My play was recently selected as a finalist for the 2025 Blue Ink Playwriting Award presented by American Blues Theatre in Chicago and developed in part with assistance from the 2025 New Harmony Project Writers Residency in New Harmony, Indiana and the 2024 Classics in Color Program by Dramatic Question Theatre in New York City.
The staged reading will be held:
Sunday July 13, 2025
3:00pm
HB Studio
120 Bank St.
New York, NY 10014
For tickets please visit: www.tinyurl.com/waitingtheplay