Elinor Carucci photographed Jordan E. Cooper transforming into Peaches backstage for New York Magazin. At 27 he is the youngest Black playwright to premiere work on Broadway.
"Ain’t No Mo’, made up of gay, geeked millennials and B’way heads who’d heard through the grapevine that one of their own just made it to the big time.
The play is a prickly post-Obama satire directed by Stevie Walker-Webb and premised on an alternative history wherein the U.S. government funds a massive plan to return Black people to Senegal after Trump’s election. It consists of vignettes across a multiplicity of experiences from skinfolks who are just finding out that Africa can be a new home if we will it. Cooper stars as Peaches, a beat, bedazzled flight attendant escorting the last Airbus out. Its small cast — featuring intense performances from Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, Shannon Matesky, Marchánt Davis, and Fedna Jacquet in rotation as both enthused and reticent passengers — remains intact from its Obie Award–winning run at the Public Theater in 2019, when Cooper was 24."
