In New York, Hutchins Foster was the Artistic Director for Readers Theatre Workshop, a company that promotes literacy through classroom workshops and live performances. Foster has been a regular spoken word performer with Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s True Story, creating over fifty pieces. This led him to develop his own “one mom show,” Mommy with a Penis, which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and then was remounted at Theatre Asylum as “best in the fest.” His play The Art of Arson, a semi-finalist for Dramatist Guild’s Fellows Program, had a reading at The Open Fist Theatre’s First Look Festival. Last month at EST LA, a reading was done of Exquisite Poison, which delves into the decadent world of Louis XIV and the nasty habit they had about poisoning those who got in the way. Foster most recently completed Sistahs 3, an all Black retelling of Chekhov’s Three Sisters which takes place in Alliance, Ohio, during the long hot summer of race riots of 1967. He’s also completed the first draft of his memoir, One Day It’s Justice, The Next It’s Revenge, about marrying his husband when gay marriage was illegal and adopting two children after eleven harrowing adoption attempts. For three years, Foster and his husband Michael A. Shepperd have maintained a livestream event called Boozin’ with Gays.