[5] Dickerson-Despenza's play, cullud wattah, received its first staged reading at Jackalope Theatre in Chicago in 2018.
[7][8] The Public Theatre had slated cullud wattah to be staged in the summer of 2020, which would have been Dickerson-Despenza's first professional production.
[4] Despite the suspension of all performances of the play, cullud wattah won the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
[11] The second installement, [hieroglyph], was co-produced by The San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in 2021 for a digital production.
[7][12] Dickerson-Despenza pulled Victory Gardens Theater's rights to produce cullud wattah in 2022, citing allegations of racism and oppressive values.