A One-Woman Show Written & Performed by Markeitra “Queen Key” Gilliam

What do you do when you no longer recognize the life you’re living—and you have no idea what comes next? I Stay With Me is an intimate one-woman journey through the experience of feeling completely lost, exhausted, and defeated—and finding the courage to keep moving anyway. Through storytelling, poetry, music, humor, and reflection, Markeitra “Queen Key” Gilliam takes audiences through the moments, people, choices, dreams, and unexpected turns that shaped her journey. There is no perfect roadmap and no miraculous moment when everything suddenly makes sense. Instead, there is a woman learning to face the unknown while carrying everything that came before it. At its heart, I Stay With Me asks what happens when the plans disappear, the familiar no longer feels like home, and the person you must learn to trust is yourself.

It is a story of wandering, becoming, beginning again—and discovering that even when you don’t know where you’re going, you don’t have to abandon yourself to get there. Sometimes you don’t have the answers. Sometimes you don’t know the way. But wherever life takes you, you stay with you