The actor who plays Kell, the leader of the South Florida Christian Militia’s Women’s Auxiliary, is Jennifer Peery Logue, a fourth-generation Floridian from Palm Beach Gardens who graduated from William T. “Both America and China just decide to leave Miami alone,” he said. So he writes with some authority in this darkly comedic future world that makes Miami something called “Free Miami”, a independent nation state unclaimed by either nation. They band together to form an armed resistance called the South Florida Christian Militia.Īs the Seminole Indians did in the 19th Century a point that isn’t lost on Ferrigni, who got his theater education at Florida State University. military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Everyone does, except for a band of about 3,000 Christian evangelicals and U.S. In Ferrigni’s satirical take on sacrificing Florida to save the nation from economic collapse, Floridians are offered a buyout based on their property values and told to clear out of the state. “And the Chinese need us to pay our debts to them and be solvent. “We can no longer pay our debts, so we can’t borrow any more money,” Ferrigni explains. “And everything strange happens in Florida.”įerrigni, 37, is the playwright who wrote Occupation, an off-Broadway play that imagines a broke America in the year 2017 negotiating the sale of Florida to China for $5 trillion.
“Florida is a peninsula, and by Chinese standards, it’s drastically underpopulated.” Ferrigni said. Ken Ferrigni has spent a lot of time thinking about why selling Florida to China makes sense.