Darcy Bruce
Title of Play
All We Know Is Not Enough
Date and Place of Reading
June 3, 2024
Pearl Studios, New York City
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Director
Devin Brain
Cast
Gabriel Wassif–Stage Directions
Victoria Leigh–Charlie
Smith Alfieri–Romeo
Zamo Mlengana–Casey
Lama El Homaïsi–Nasrin
About the Playwright
Darcy Parker Bruce is a graduate of the M.F.A. Playwriting program at Smith College and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Their love of theater began under the mentorship of Ric Morris in New Haven, where they began writing and acting with Yale's DEP. Their work explores the intersections of queerness, adoption, environmental precarity, and American mythologies through interdisciplinary performance and research-based playwriting. They are the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellowship, and a 2023 writing residency at Gullkistan in Iceland. From 2022 to 2024, Bruce served as Writer in Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. In 2018, they received the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education’s Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Theater for their play Soldier Poet. Their play the wolf you feed was produced in Ireland and Germany with Giant Wolf Theatre Company, and was staged in Austin, Texas at the Vortex in 2026. wolf was also nominated for Outstanding Original Script through the Austin Theatre Critics Awards. They are currently working on The Book of a Universe Inside of a Universe, a multigenerational performance work developed during their MacDowell residency, that integrates archival research, adoption studies, queer temporality, and the ecological afterlives of war. They further developed this script with WNYC's Radiolab at the end of 2025. In addition, Bruce is currently publishing The Piedmont Plays with Broadway Play Publishing, a four-play cycle confronting American ideology and the promise of 'glory'.
About the Play
In a seedy pay-by-the-hour motel, Romeo, a trans man, fights to stay alive after suffering a hate crime. His sister Charlie is taking care of him. An ocean away, Nasrin, a refugee, is lost at sea. Linking their stories and their voices are Charlie’s ham radio and a mysterious white dragon. All We Know Is Not Enough is a play that explores what it means to be searching for home and somewhere to call safe.