Plays written by Tyree Marshall:
IF THE CREEK DON’T RISE
YOU WILL BURN
Synopses:
If the Creek Don’t Rise – In a dystopian near-future Georgia, two Black women Lindsey, a hardened survivor and mother, and Susie, a God-fearing optimist, struggle to stay alive in the shadow of what they think is an alien invasion. Set behind Lindsey’s dilapidated home on the haunted banks of Ebenezer Creek, the story weaves between time periods, memories, and ancestral trauma as the women endure not only the threat of otherworldly creatures but the oppressive echoes of a theocratic regime and deep personal loss. When a wounded white soldier named Richard emerges from the creek, his arrival sparks tension, mistrust, and complicated questions about survival, patriarchy, and redemption. As strange phenomena intensify and the presence of the creatures grows increasingly insidious, the trio must navigate shifting loyalties, long-buried truths, and the lingering spirits of a dark historical past. Rooted in the legacy of the 1864 Ebenezer Creek Massacre and layered with sci-fi elements, If The Creek Don’t Rise is a tragic, genre-blending meditation on faith, resistance, the ghosts that live in our water, and how they can set us free.
You Will Burn – At a quarterly board meeting for the East Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra, Sylvia and Dennis discover that the corrupt organization they work for is a far deeper hell than they could have ever imagined.
Biography:
Tyree Marshall is a Los Angeles-based Playwright, Actor, Producer, and Director. Tyree’s afro-futurist, horror play, If The Creek Don’t Rise (O’Neill NPC Semi-finalist) was selected and developed as a part of The Vagrancy’s “Blossoming: Workshop Edition” program. If The Creek Don’t Rise had a public reading at Skylight Theatre in May of 2025 and received a workshop & reading in November 2025 with Ammunition Theatre Company, as well as another workshop and reading at the Kayenta New Playlab in Kayenta, Utah in August 2026. Her play Banish Him! had its world premiere in September 2025 with The Roots and Wings Project in Highland Park as part of the program Luminous Streets. Tyree helped create and choreograph the play Love Gasoline by Stacy Dawson Stearns which premiered at the RedCat Now Festival in 2017 and later moved to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland that same year. Tyree’s play, You Will Burn was developed in IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerge Playwrights Lab from 2025-2026, and had a workshop and public reading in July 2026. Tyree’s latest play Soul Bomb, is currently being developed in Ammunition Theatre Company’s Phoenix Rising Playlab and is set to receive a reading in March of 2027.