Bad Moon Rising

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Bad Moon Rising by Karen JP Howes

Synopsis: Set in the fictional town of Euphoria, Mississippi, in 1972—where the echoes of Southern R&B still linger—a woman approaching her thirtieth birthday dreams of escaping the life she's inherited. When she falls in love with a Black saxophonist who moves into the neighboring house, their future is shattered after a corrupt politician and an unscrupulous journalist frame him for murder. To save the man she loves, she must choose between submitting to the demands of a family and town determined to preserve the past or risking everything to break free from the life that has always defined her. At its heart, the play explores how culture, family, responsibility, and love can both sustain us and imprison us, asking whether anyone can truly escape the world they were born into.

Karen JP Howes is a teacher and award-winning playwright, novelist, and lyricist whose work centers on our journey to understand the world and our place in it. Her plays have been produced across the country and published in distinguished anthologies including the creative writing text “Four Genres in Brief.” She is a two-time winner of the Science-Driven Play Award, winner of The Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize, The Womens Playwright Initiative, The Bennett Prize, and others. She has an MFA in Writing for The Performing Arts from UCR, and a degree in Philosophy from the College of William and Mary.