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Primary Trust

WRITTEN BY

Eboni Booth

DIRECTED BY

Tiffany Bryant-Jackson

WINNER- 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
WINNER- 2024 Outer Critics Circle Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Edgerton Foundation New Play Award

Dates
February 6-22, 2026
Venue
The Arts Factory at West End Studios
run time
Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission
content
TBD
About the Show
Primary Trust
Do you have the courage to change? Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he’s suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he's long avoided – with transformative and even comical results.

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Primary Trust is a touching and inventive play about new beginnings, old friends and seeing the world for the first time. The New York Observer says, “it will restore your faith in theatre’s elemental storytelling powers.”
What People Are Saying
Praise from previous productions
The Daily Beast
“NYC’s best new play... beautifully written... a 95-minute, intermission less, buffed-to-gleaming jewel.”
The New York Times
Best Theater of 2023!
“The glory of both the writing and acting was in letting us experience the character’s sadness and, even more, the hard work behind his efforts to stay afloat in a painful world.”
Theater Pizzazz
“Tender, touching... Eboni Booth has created Kenneth’s world with loving attention to detail... Primary Trust explores the terrain of loneliness and the gentle joy of connection between one human being and another.”
The Observer
“Eboni Booth’s portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater’s elemental storytelling powers."
Get Tickets
Advance Purchase Online: $30 inclusive of all taxes and fees
Night of Show at the Door: $35 inclusive of all taxes and fees
Students and Educators: $15 inclusive of all taxes and fees

Discounted pricing available for groups of 10 or more, contact us at info@threebonetheatre.com to learn more

Select a date and time to get started

Friday

February 6, 2026

8:00 PM

Opening night toast

Saturday

February 7, 2026

8:00 PM

Sunday

February 8, 2026

2:00 PM

Thursday

February 12, 2026

8:00 PM

Friday

February 13, 2026

8:00 PM

Saturday

February 14, 2026

8:00 PM

Sunday

February 15, 2026

2:00 PM

Thursday

February 19, 2026

8:00 PM

Friday

February 20, 2026

8:00 PM

Saturday

February 21, 2026

8:00 PM

Sunday

February 22, 2026

2:00 PM

Meet the Artists
Eboni Booth
Eboni Booth

Playwright

Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Critics Circle Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). For television, she has written for Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max’s Julia. As an actor, Eboni has appeared in productions at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theater Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep., Clubbed Thumb, and more. Eboni is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, and a John Gassner Award. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program and the University of Vermont.

Supporting Materials
Digital Program

Download the full program to learn more about the artistic team and our community partner.

Discussion Guide

Keep the conversation going with our show-specific discussion guide developed by our Education Manager.

Learn More
Eboni Booth on ‘Primary Trust’: Only Connect

American Theatre Magazine

An interview with the playwright about fast writing, big feelings, mai tais, and Munchkins.

Eboni Booth on Winning the Drama Pulitzer for ‘Primary Trust’

The New York Times

An interview with playwright about being selected for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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This project is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Land Acknowledgement

 

Three Bone Theatre is based in Charlotte, NC. We acknowledge that we rehearse and perform on the traditional, ancestral, stolen territory of the Catawba Indian Nation, including the Catawba and Sugaree tribes. The Catawba Indians have lived on their ancestral lands along the banks of the Catawba River dating back at least 6,000 years. You can learn more about the Catawba Indian Nation at catawbaindian.net.

 

Learn more about why Indigenous land acknowledgement is important

Contact Us: 

info@threebonetheatre.com

(704) 559-9051

Charlotte, NC

 

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