Ten Grand
by Kate Cortesi
Directed by Reggie D. White
FEBRUARY 1 – 28, 2027
Welcome to Goodwill, where everything has a past and everyone has a story.
In a Boston-area Goodwill store, it’s business as usual. Employees and customers form quiet alliances, rituals, and rivalries amid piles of stuff that’s been “gently used” and “twice loved.” One highly detail-oriented worker crushes on a coworker. A production assistant working on a nearby film set likes her too. Her manager just wants her to get to work on time. And “All My Children” plays in the breakroom every day like gospel.
But when an unexpected item shows up in the donation bin, ordinary workplace drama takes on life-or-death stakes.
TEN GRAND, by Princess Grace Award winner Kate Cortesi, is a play about discarded people, community care, and how the stories we tell become our destiny.