Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer Will Make Its New York Premiere at The Public Theater Off-Broadway

Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer has been added to The Public’s 2014-15 season line-up. Helmed by Anne Kauffman, the show will be making its New York premiere. Buzzer replaces the previously announced world premiere musical The Total Bent, which has been postponed until next season due to director Joanna Settle’s recent diagnosis with breast cancer and to allow time for her treatment and recovery.

Buzzer is a darkly funny, gripping new play about love, fear and the high costs of choosing who we make a home with, and where. Jackson left his tough Brooklyn neighborhood by winning a scholarship to Exeter, where he met Don, a play-hard rich boy who became his unlikely best friend. Now a Harvard-educated lawyer, Jackson’s bought a place in the newly gentrifying area he grew up in. But Jackson’s white girlfriend, Suzy, isn’t so sure she belongs in a community “on the verge.” When Don comes to crash with his old buddy and stay clean, his stories of the neighborhood's dangerous past collide with the growing disconnect between Jackson and Suzy, and the sexual and racial tensions waiting just beyond the door and demanding to be let in.

Wilson currently writes for The Americans on FX. Recent productions include Buzzer at the Goodman Theater, Pillsbury House Theater and The Guthrie, as well as The Good Negro and The Story at The Public Theater and the Goodman Theater. Additional productions include Order My Steps, Exhibit #9 and Leader of the People.