Edgy! Heartfelt! Enlightening! Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America at Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

It’s Monique DeBose’s edgy one woman show, part of the exciting “Black History [every] Month” 2025 project.

“Very entertaining, cool, and enlightening…poignant and humorous!” LOS ANGELES BEAT

Through original music and stories of her family's history, this mixed race woman (from an African American father from the segregated south and Irish American mother from upstate New York) shares her most precious, vulnerable stories of her exploration of family, race and identity. As an audience member, you get the have the experience of being a fly on the wall for some of the most potent and real conversations from ‘the other side.’ The show is heartfelt, funny and an intimate look at race and the implications of race consciousness in America. Yes, it's one woman's story...but audiences from all backgrounds have found themselves and heard their own voices in Monique's story. Live music and multi-media, too!

“I highly recommend Mulatto Math!” NOHO ARTS DISTRICT

Monique DeBose is an award-winning singer, songwriter and spiritual coach. She has toured and entertained audiences throughout the world, performed at TEDx and spoken as part of the United Nation’s SDG Action Zones event, with the mission of helping people to transition beyond seeing in “black” and “white” so they can begin to live life in full color.

“A one-woman performance explored masterfully by Monique DeBose!” BEVERLY HILLS COURIER

Inspired by her experience of what it means to be a black, mixed-race woman, she wrote the funny, heartwarming and disruptive one-woman show “Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America” to initiate conversation and help heal race relations in the United States. The show is the winner of the Producer’s Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Rated 16+

She calls LA home, is married to a Brit and is raising two compassionate, culturally intelligent boys.

Supported by generous grants from the We Are Santa Monica Fund, the City of Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Arts Commission and Playhouse PALS.

Saturday, September 27 at 7:30pm, Sunday, September 28 at 3:00pm.

Gen adm $29.50; discounts for Students, Teachers, Seniors and Military Past and Present. Includes a post-show wine and nibbles reception with the artist.