DUCK HUNT

An Irons in the Fire Project

By Naomi Lorrain
Directed by abigail jean-baptiste

Friday, December 4, 2026 @ 5:00pm

Attendance is free but seating is extremely limited and by reservation only.

Synopsis

A coming of age tale of two teenage cousins who go hunting in the backwoods Arkansas in the summer of 2003 and shoot something that is not a duck. They are divided on how to deal with the incident and the repercussions redefine their lives both as kids and kindred.

Playwright

NAOMI LORRAIN [she/her] is a Harlem based, Southern born queer actor/playwright. Her work often explores the intricacies of humanity via the lens of humor and nostalgia. Naomi’s plays have been developed/produced by 2nd Stage, South Coast Rep, Uptown Collective, The Fire This Time Festival, Vanguard Theater’s Illuminating New Voices Festival, The Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival, The Continuum Company, HomeBase Theatre Collective and The 52nd Street Kids Project. Her play, DUCK HUNT, semifinalist for the 2026 National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neil, is currently being developed by Fault Line Theatre’s Irons in the Fire and her play, how to roll a blunt, finalist for the 2021 National Playwrights Conference, has an upcoming production with 2ST April 2027. Her screenplay, My Better Half was a 2021 2nd Rounder for Comedy Feature Screenplay at the Austin Film Festival as well as a quarterfinalist for the WeScreenplay: Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab. Naomi was a Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase Staff Writer and an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group. Some acting credits: BROADWAY: EUREKA DAY (MTC); JORDANS (The Public Theater), DAPHNE (Lincoln Center Theater). TV: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (Netflix). NYU: MFA; Yale: B.A.

Director

abigail jean-baptiste [all/any pronouns] is an Obie Award-winning director and generative artist born & based in New York City. guided by questions around blackness, femininity, and kinship, their work is in search of building nonsensical and queer ways of being. Select directing credits include: Furlough’s Paradise by a.k. payne at Yale Rep, Chiaroscuro by Aishah Rahman with National Black Theatre at The Flea (Obie), a search for (black) comfort devised with Sam Morreale for JACK Radical Acts. Previously: Project Number One Artist with Soho Rep., I AM SOUL Directing Residency with NBT, Audrey Residency with New Georges, HGB BOLD Circle Directing Resident at Northern Stage, and 2018 Lilly Award Winner. Currently, abigail continues to be a frequent Lead Artist at Mercury Store in Gowanus and is developing a theatrical adaptation of A. Van Jordan’s poetry collection M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A with Northern Stage and Playwrights’ Center. B.A. Princeton University. Upcoming: lucky/birdby Audley Puglisi at Ensemble Studio Theater. www.abigailjeanbaptiste.org @abigailrosejb

Poster Sketch by Sean Devare