About One Drop of Love

One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class and gender in pursuit of truth, justice and LOVE.

One Drop is written, produced and performed by Fanshen Cox. The show is 1 hour and 10 minutes and includes a 20-30 minute post-show Q&A. One Drop is appropriate for ages 12 and above, as it deals with purposely raw content (see our Educators Guide for more information). 

Press, reviews and Fanshen’s OpEds here: onedropoflove.org/press

Watch our trailer:

Audience Reviews:
(to see full quotes and more click our PRESS/REVIEWS page)

“One Drop of Love” not only provided a spectacular performance  by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, but was also one of the most socially important conversations the Fox has been able to help facilitate within our community…
– Allan Vella, President and CEO of the Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA

Fanshen Cox’s “One Drop of Love” interweaves the intimacy of personal experience with the larger social and political changes redefining race, gender and the kinship in America…
Michele Elam, professor of English, Stanford University

Fanshen’s story is quite incredible, but it is her retelling of it that captures an audience… She is the kind of performer who will inspire people to embrace what makes them different and see it as a strength.
– Randall Arney, Artistic Director, Geffen Playhouse

“One Drop of Love” is funny, entertaining and moving.
– Kim Wayans, Actress: PariahIn Living Color; Writer/Performer: A Handsome Woman Retreats

“One Drop of Love” is beautiful and brave… In this sometimes searing, sometimes funny, and always smart play she shows us both the terrible things we do to those we love and a way forward to a better future.
– Paul Spickard, professor of history at University of California, Santa Barbara

Click the APPEARANCES link for a list of past performances.


One Drop uses the ever-changing racial categories on the U.S. Census as the historical backdrop to this interactive show. Throughout, the audience is asked to participate in defining and redefining these categories for themselves and one another. Fanshen parallels this history with her own, and her family’s, search for roots, identity and for justice. Audiences will travel from the 1700s to the present, to cities around the U.S., and to West and East Africa, to pursue more truth – leading to more justice – and then, perhaps to LOVE.

The ultimate goal of the performance is to encourage the discussion of race and racism openly and critically, and to encourage a commitment to making the world more liberated for all.