Callie Kimball

“Alligator Road addresses big issues – white privilege and guilt, racism of the past and the present, the problematic concept of reparations – in an interestingly oblique, non-didactic way. Kimball’s punchy, irreverent script delivers turns that feel at once surprising and inevitable, her dialogue is refreshingly free of Big Issue exposition... What’s perhaps most interesting about Kimball’s script is its ambiguousness; the script asks questions rather than answers them. ”

“An incisive and insightful drama about family relationships, race, and the meaning of personal freedom ... a taut, tension filled script and scathing, acerbic, often mordantly funny dialogue for four wonderfully flawed and human characters, with whom the audience easily empathizes ... Kimball vividly paints her characters in colorful strokes and emotionally laden confrontations; she knows how to build tension to a white-hot temperature and diffuse it in a brief moment of sharp humor ... Hers is a play that deserves a wider audience, and one can only hope that Alligator Road will find many more venues and audiences with which to share its message.”