The African American Playwrights' Exchange kicks off 2013 with a new
partnership. In September, I signed on as the Managing
Director/Dramaturge for The Spiral Theatre Studio in NYC. One treasure
that I bring to the table is a catalog of brilliant, unproduced
scripts by the writers of the AAPEX network.
The Spiral Theatre Studio will start
our first year with a new play reading series.
On Thursday, March 14 (date subject to change) we will inaugurate the
AAPEX/Spiral relationship with a special reading of THE CARELESSNESS
OF LOVE by Michael Dinwiddie at The Players Club in New York City.
For those of you who do not know him, Dr. Dinwiddie is a professor at
NYU's Galatin School and was recently elected President of The BlackTheatre Network. Without folks like Michael, who put aside their own
artistic endeavors to teach, mentor and serve our community, progress
would not be made. We can all thank him by supporting his work as a
playwright and especially his stunning play about the amazing Grimké
clan. If the Grimkés are unknown to you, google Archibald Grimké and
his playwright daughter, Angelina Weld Grimké, whose radical play
RACHEL rattled the NAACP back in the day.
Read all about it in Dr. Henry Miller's swell book, THEORIZING BLACK THEATRE.
In the field of historical revisionism, theatre is the greatest tool
we have. I'm sure you'll agree after you have heard Dr. Dinwiddie's
play.
So please save the date! And if you can, also plan to join us at our
New Year's kick off, with a reading of Coni Koepfinger's metaphysical
conundrum GARRETT THE BLUE GIRAFFE on Thursday, January 3rd - also at
The Players Club. Reservations required, so contact me if you can
attend.
Merry Christmas,
Jaz
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