Vickie G. Hampton
Playwright
“We must own our stories, develop our own characters, and devise our own plots, twists and inciting incidents, because if we don’t, we become dominated and identified by stories others tell about us— stories where we are presidents or pariahs, divas or maids — and not much else. And we are so much more. Black stories matter.”
Vickie G. Hampton is an award-winning editor and writer who is now expanding her craft to the art of
playwriting.
In 2023, her play titled “The Learning Curve” was one of two plays selected from a pool of North Carolina playwrights for workshopping and public staged reading by the North Carolina Playwrights Lab in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2022, it also was selected to be read as part of the 40th anniversary of PassinArt: A Theatre Company in Portland, Oregon.
Her play, “I Am Grace” was staged in May 2021 by Face Off Theatre Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The play explores the charged and emotion journey of an African American family dealing with the brutal assault of 13-year-old Grace during a time when black people had no legal, financial or political recourse.
Three of her plays — “The Learning Curve,” “I Am Grace” and “Sarah and Sally” (an imagined encounter between two of history’s most exploited black women)– were selected for staged readings at the
National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Her 10-minute play, “I’m Not Buying It,” was produced as an immersive experience in 2021 by 7Stages during its Human Lights Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. It takes the audience into the mind of a white male cashier–first day on the job at a posh jewelry story–to hear his internal narrative when his first customer is a young black man. This play was also staged in 2023 during the Columbus Black Theatre Festival and also received a virtual performance by Face Off Theatre Company.