THE WASH 
by Kelundra Smith
Directed by Tasia A. Jones

April 2026
Location TBD

In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/dozen pounds of laundry, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was the first successful interracial, organized labor strike of the post-Civil War era. The Wash offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won.

The Wash was first produced as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Synchronicity Theatre and Impact Theatre Atlanta (Atlanta, GA), The St. Louis Black Repertory Company (St. Louis, MO), and Prop Thtr with Perceptions Theatre (Chicago, IL). For more information, please visit nnpn.org. The Wash was developed in part by Hush Harbor Lab in Atlanta, GA.​