Winner of the 2026 LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama
Thought-provoking and electrifying…Ain’t No Mo’ both honors its ancestors and loudly makes a stand for its own unique perspective. —Greg Evans, Deadline
The time is the near future, and African American Airlines Flight 1619 has been chartered to take Black Americans “back to Africa.” Organizing the boarding process is Peaches, a flight agent in drag who is juggling the passengers’ excitement and reluctance, as well as her own. Presented in eight vignettes, Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’ is both a satire and a serious investigation examining the ever-varying facets of the Black American experience: lives affected by violence, class tensions, the prison-industrial complex, and culture vultures.
About the Author :
Jordan E. Cooper is an award-winning performer and playwright who was recently one of Out magazine's "Entertainers Of The Year." He starred in a sold-out Broadway run of his play Ain't No Mo', which was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Cooper also created a pandemic-centered short film called Mama Got A Cough that's been featured in National Geographic and was named “Best Of 2020” by The New York Times. He is the creator and executive producer of The Ms. Pat Show, a three-time Emmy-nominated sitcom on BET+.
Review :
'Thrilling, bewildering, campy, shrewd, mortifying, scary, devastating, and deep… nothing less than a spiritual portrait of Black American life right now, with all its terrors, hopes, and contradictions'
'A rolicking, high-concept sitcom, mining dark comedy from the horrors of racism and the particulars of Black life. Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, it's heady and hysterical and fearlessly provocative. Its keen observations about race as both social construction and lived reality crackle like a lit fuse'
'Searingly satirical tragicomedy… Cooper's script speaks to the moment in ways both pointed and unanticipated'
