Performances will take place at ◼ The Chocolate Factory Theater, April 10 - 13, 2024, at 7pm

For All Your Life ◼ is a performance event and social experiment that investigates the value of Black life and Black death ◼This project scrutinizes the mechanism of life insurance and how it commodifies life and death, through the prism of the underwriting process.

Centered around an ambitious seriocomical short film, For All Your Life is staged as a performance seminar which offers a primer on the life insurance industry and its direct connection to slavery; unpacking the ways in which human beings grapple with the inevitable prospect of death and, more importantly, the ways in which lives—especially those of people of color—are monetized.

The piece rewrites the performative narrative tradition, where performer acts in service for the spectator; inviting the audience to confront its own value systems as they relate to black life and black death while navigating questions of reality, authenticity, accountability, and monetary value.

Creation and performance by Leslie Cuyjet ◼ Dramaturgy and Co-Direction by Sean Donovan ◼ Set design by Neal Wilkinson ◼ Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger ◼ Film Direction by Daniele Sarti ◼ Co-produced by Jennifer Castro Song and Sweat Variant ◼