PEEP ONE: I opened those DNA results….last night
VERB: I thought….I thought you ain’t wanna know
PINNACLE: You always told me you didn’t care.
VERB: So? What are you?
PINNACLE: Not that it matters but—yeah what are you?
Peep One, who’s described in the Hype Man character breakdown as mixed race, was adopted as a kid and doesn’t know much about her family history or racial background. She frequently gets questions about her racial identity and debates whether a home DNA test, like the ones offered by Ancestry.com or 23andMe, might illuminate something about her heritage and her relationship to the events surrounding the shooting of Jerrod Davis.
A question came up in rehearsal about what a DNA test result might look like — below are a few examples of how that data might be presented and the level of detail Peep One could expect to see in her results.
