2025 Shows in Homes
How to Make a Home
is Suzi Bass Award Nominated!
Principal Performer: Markell Williams
Outstanding World Premiere Production: How to Make a Home by Amina McIntyre
Outstanding Social Justice Production: How to Make a Home
Find all 2025 Suzi Bass Award Nominees here.
How to Make a Home follows Antonio, a single father, as he navigates Atlanta’s Continuum of Care system to secure stable housing for himself and his 10-year-old daughter. Antonio contends with frustrations and daily life stressors, striving to maintain hope while providing for his child. Through his story, the play offers an emotional insight into the realities of homelessness and highlights available services for those in need.
Stay tuned for encore performance announcements!
2025 Shows in Homes financial partners:
Commissioning Partner:
Production Partners:
Kathy Waller
Katie & Reade Fahs
About Shows In Homes
Each Season, Out of Hand produces Shows in Homes: one-act plays on community issues produced in living rooms across Metro Atlanta, and paired with cocktail parties and conversations on the issue with our partners.
Past Shows in Homes
2025: How to Make a Home by Amina McIntyre with Partners for Home and Mayor Andre Dickens
2024: Class Dismissed by Paris Crayton III with the ACLU of Georgia
2023: Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbowed by Ingrid Griffith with Partnership for Southern Equity
2022: Calf by Leviticus Jelks with Georgia Justice Project
2021: A Good Day by Amina McIntyre with Families First (virtual)
2020: LAG: A Zoomsical Comedy by Haddon Kime (virtual)
2019: Conceal and Carry by Sean Christopher Lewis with Moms Demand Action
2018: Shaking the Wind by Minka Wiltz
2018: Natural Shocks by Lauren Gunderson
2017: Dogs of Rwanda by Sean Christopher Lewis
2016: The Magic Chamber by Matt Felten
2014: White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour
2013: Salome by Charles L. Mee
Help us bring theater home.
With your support, Shows in Homes turns living rooms into intimate spaces for powerful stories and real conversations that spark change. Your gift supports local actors, playwrights, directors, and sound engineers—making professional theater personal, up close, and unforgettable.
Every dollar counts.
Presenting Sponsor – $5,000
Commissioning Sponsor – $3,000
Give what you can – yes, even $1 helps. So does $1,000,000.