Shokoa Plummer

Shokoa Plummer , film maker , writer , producer, case worker and the list goes on. From Elberton, GA , Shokoa has been married for 27 years to her husband , has 3 sons and 3 grandsons. Her husband was raised in church and through his influence she found God on her own. 

For Shokoa, being in the church pulled her out of her comfort zone to start doing plays and skits.

Shokoa always loved to write and growing up being the  oldest child she always knew she was different.

Around about 20 years ago, Shokoa produced her first play , Modern Day Jesus. It was a play that brought all of the figures in the Bible in modern day form. Even though she recieved a lot of backlash from the church she still proceeded to have the play. It wasn’t a sold out event and only made $100 , which the owner of the building was gracious enough to let Shokoa keep the money she made. After that show a group of older woman were crying . One of the women hugged Shokoa and explained her tears were from just simply being able to sit and enjoy the play front row for the first time from a black producer because the women remember the times growing up in Elberton where they could sit in the balcony due to segregation. 

That motivated Shokoa to keep going becoming the “Tyler Perry of Elberton”.

She finally had her first sold out play in Athens in 2008 and many more after then.

One sold out play that stands out to Shokoa the most is back in 2018, it was pouring down raining in Elberton. Shokoa was nervous that no one would show up but when her make up artist told her to look outside and the line was wrapped around the building. She immediately started crying almost messing up her make up. When the doors opened to the building , Shokoa described it as it was like it was Black Friday how everyone was running to the seats.

God put it on Shokoa’s heart to start doing movies so she can keep advancing in her craft and not limiting herself.

Wake Up the movie will be her first movie premiering Jan 31st, 2026

Wake Up was actually one of her plays in 2009 and Shokoa wrote it when she was a youth pastor. The play was based around a group of boys that stayed in trouble and mainly focused on a teenage boy that struggled the streets and his faith. For the play she had 70 kids that was in the church and youth that hung out in the streets that participated. 

The actual movie has a similar story line except it’s a young adult named Dj instead of a teenage boy.

Shokoa Plummer is very humble and sometimes doesn’t even realize her impact and contributions. Her motivation is her life journey , she explains that she wants to become what she didn’t have.