Pipeline's PlaySpace Presents: BabySteps -May 15th

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Witness real works in progress- join our PlaySpace resident, Kareem M. Lucas, on Friday, May 15th, for a special sneak peek of his piece: BabySteps.

BabySteps is a new Afro-surrealist multi-character play by Kareem M. Lucas. This sprawling, multi-generational odyssey leaps across 100 years of a single bloodline, weaving together the voices of a musician in 1976, a father in 2020, and a comedian in 2061.

A rhythmic, soulful ensemble work, BabySteps explores the echoes we leave behind and the revolutionary act of simply showing up for the next day.

Kareem M. Lucas is a Brooklyn-born and bred writer, actor, producer, and director whose work lives at the intersection of the poetic and the political. An inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, he crafts visceral Afro-surrealist plays that explore the full complexity of Black humanity.

His work has been developed by The Public Theater, NYTW, The Apollo, ART, and others. Whether through his celebrated solo pieces or his expansive ensemble dramas, he creates rhythmic rituals of resistance. As a multidisciplinary creator, Kareem builds mythic worlds that stretch theatrical form and speak the unspoken. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.

PlaySpace is a new-work development program for wildly imaginative theatrical pieces. The program lends personalized support to the core artists with the aim of bringing their ambitious theatre project closer to being production-ready.

This residency is an opportunity for bold experimentation and rigorous investigation of concept, space, design, text, form, and performance.

Click the REGISTER button (to the right) to sign up for the guest list of one of our two FREE presentations on Friday, May 15th, 2026 (at 2pm & 7pm).