Stephen Long's JEFF FORT & FRED HAMPTON: A REVOLUTIONARY LOVE STORY 3/8 (NYC)

Steve Long

JEFF FORT AND FRED HAMPTON: A REVOLUTIONARY LOVE STORY written by Steven Long is a play about the three secret conversations most likely had between Jeff Fort, the legendary gang leader of the Blackstone Rangers, and Fred Hampton a 20 year old revolutionary who leads the Chicago Black Panther Party of Illinois. The FBI feared that Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton might actually join forces. In the last years of Hoover's reign, Hoover did not want to see the Black Panther Party double in size and he was determined to stop that from happening! Part of the story centers on what made the FBI so anxious about two 20 year old black kids from Chicago, and more importantly, what still blocks a young black man's potential today.

Jolie Tong, who has worked on and Off-Broadway, is the director of the reading . She is now a professor at Brooklyn College.

The free reading will be at 

7:30 pm

Friday, March 8th 

at the 

Dramatists Guild 

1501 Broadway, Suite 710 

Frederick Loewe Room

New York, NY 10036

Steven Long started working in professional theatre as an actor at 16 with Eden at the Victory Gardens Theatre, which was nominated for a Jeff Award for Best Ensemble. He has performed in over 100 plays in theaters that have included the Goodman Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center. He went to school at Webster University and Columbia College where he started teaching acting and began the Theodore Ward Prize for Playwriting, a national playwriting contest. He has written three screenplays and four plays.