Written by students Nicole Weerbrouck, Josh Dorsheimer and Hal Matroni, Despite These Marks began life as a short devised play and was performed at the 2012-2013 Region
II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Judges and audience members alike praised the short play. NYC actor/director, Nick Dalton referred to the piece as "The new voice of AIDS."

      This project seeks to explore the often-neglected normalcy of persons living with HIV and to expose the hardships they struggle with on a day-to-day basis, both from the disease
and from the discrimination faced through the stigmas of HIV.
It continues to be expanded, using real interviews with HIV Positive individuals, their family, friends and HIV activists as 
the basis for the script.