"To succeed in life you need three things-
a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
-Reba McEntire
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
This production includes themes of grief, mental health, loneliness, and emotional trauma. It contains moments of strong language and depictions of isolation and personal struggle. Recommended for ages 14+
About the Show
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
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
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Discussion Guide
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