Yes, Deep in My Blood
Written by Isis Elizabeth
Directed by Brittney Brown

Black. White. One Bloodline.
When Amara is sent to care for her dying grandmother in rural Georgia, she expects an uncomfortable reunion. Instead, she finds herself trapped inside a house haunted by memory, race, and a family history neither of them can escape. As her grandmother’s mind begins to unravel, buried truths surface, forcing both women to confront what blood can carry…and what it can never erase.

About the Playwright
Isis Elizabeth is a Chicago-based playwright and actor whose work explores Black identity, memory, survival, and generational healing through poetic realism. She is an Associate Member of the Dramatists Guild of America and serves as Associate Artistic Director of Pulse Theatre Chicago. Her play Beneath the Willow Tree received its world premiere with Pulse Theatre Chicago at the Den Theatre in 2024 and earned a Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award nomination. Her short play Crown of Smoke was featured Off Broadway as both a finalist and winner of Red Bull Theatre's Short New Play Festival and is forthcoming in publication. Additional works include City of Water, a finalist for Subtext Studio Theater and a selection for Pulse Theatre Chicago's inaugural First Beat Series, Who Is Freedom?, a finalist for Definition Theatre's Amplify Series 5, Before We March, winner of the 2025 Mosaic Theatricals Staged Reading Festival in San Diego, and When the Ground Breaks, which was selected for Pocket Theatrics’ Direct Address Series in collaboration with Raven Theater. Isis was also a finalist for the 2026 New Stages Residency.