OKC Rep is a nonprofit theater company that presents and produces contemporary plays to ignite the imagination, inspire conversation, and create opportunities for audiences and artists to engage with one another. In addition to live performances, OKC Rep offers pre- and post-show community programming aimed at deepening conversations around the themes present in the plays. Frederick Douglass NOW is a monologue inspired by the life and work of the self-liberated abolitionist and pioneering feminist Frederick Douglass. Douglass' 19th Century texts have been edited into a jazz-infused narrative, bookended by original writing.