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The Borscht Film Festival is incredibly proud to call Tarell Alvin McCraney one of our own, and to be the only arts organization in Miami to be actively showcasing his work.

It's not that Borscht is particularly insightful...it's just...well...Miami

He's gotten praise from press everywhere his plays have been produced- across the country and in the U.K.

All of the following quotes were pulled from just what the New York Times had to say about the "astonishing young dramatist." You can find many many more with a few minutes on google.

"Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice."

"...there are reverberant echoes of Homer, Milton, the Bible, Shakespeare, vintage Hollywood and homespun American melodrama. Like most writers of worth, Mr. McCraney, whose “Brothers Size” made the American theater prick up its ears when it was presented at the Public Theater last season, is a hard-core linguistic scavenger. And he has blessed each of his characters with the authority of playwrights who beg, borrow and steal lustrous words to re-shape the world in their own images."

"I can’t think of another recent play that deals as explicitly and compellingly with how erotic permutations define identity, in ways that both limit and liberate."

Brothers Size Review
Wig Out! Review


Tarell wants nothing more than to bring his voice to Miami, his hometown. Not one company seems interested in making it happen. While the rest of the world gets to enjoy his work, Miami is still waiting on his first production.

You can see a short screenplay of his brought to life as part of this year's Borscht Project.


More importantly, a story:

Tarell had a play in production as part of the Carlotta Festival at the Yale School of Drama a few years back. Hanging in the theater lobby were pictures of all the...homogenous playwrights involved in the festival. And there was also this one:


Yes, that is 305 shaved into his head.