A preacher's kid learns to survive a gospel family that sings about heaven and keeps a belt on the bench.
Across four plays, The Gospel Trilogy follows Chad from a South Carolina parsonage to a college recital hall to a bar that becomes a church for those the church expelled, and finally to the quiet after the music stops.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NO ONE explores childhood survival in a house where appearances mask brutality and silence is mistaken for safety. A boy learns to breathe underwater, to become furniture, to disappear so completely that when the violence comes, there is no one home to hurt.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ME chronicles departure from inherited faith, rigid performance, and bodily shame toward freedom, queerness, and truth. Set at a conservative Southern college in the late 1990s, the play uses music, silence, and communal moments to explore what it means to stop performing and begin becoming.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO US finds Chad in Atlanta's oldest gay bar, where chosen family gathers every Tuesday. When his heart stops for ninety seconds, he learns that running forward can be just another way of drowning. Faith and sexuality reconcile not through doctrine but through friends who show up without being asked.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WHAT'S LEFT is the epilogue. A single chair. A single lamp. The hum in every room after everyone leaves. The questions that learned to stand on their own feet.
This is not a story about forgiveness. It is a story about freedom.
Complete production materials included: staging notes, character breakdowns, design specifications, and full Musical Appendix with sheet music for all hymns and original compositions.
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