tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29844221696655383842024-03-14T06:35:49.263-04:00AAPEXAfrican American Playwrights ExchangeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1683125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-79092606143384646352019-06-30T08:05:00.000-04:002019-07-02T19:20:06.491-04:00Jaz Dorsey Has Left The Room<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>Jaz Dorsey</b>, founder of the <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2NmMEju" target="_blank">African American Playwrights Exchange</a></b> (AAPEX), skipped out on us when we were all sleeping last night, <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Nnj3Gk" target="_blank">2:30am</a></b> to be exact.<br />
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At its peak from 2007 to 2016, AAPEX listed over 250 black playwrights and theatres across America and was for the most part first in publicizing their work on the Net, gratis. Although those names haven't been updated in a few years since Jaz retired, they are still there, floating over a black space on the right side of the blog, immortalized in a digital record for the ages. Some still have workable links to the playwrights and theatres just in case someone reading the blog wants to get in touch.<br />
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Jaz Dorsey was an "enabler" in the best sense of the word and will be missed. But his legacy of hope lives on. If you never knew the man, read these thoughts of those who did and you'll get a pretty good idea about who he was and why his passing hurts us all: <a href="http://bit.ly/2NmPKE2">http://bit.ly/2NmPKE2</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/2Nnj3Gk">http://bit.ly/2Nnj3Gk</a><br />
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<b>Update (7-2-19):</b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">The Celebration of Life for Jaz Dorsey will be at the <b>Darkhorse Theatre</b>, 4610 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37209, on <b>Saturday, July 27, 2019, starting at 12:00 PM and ending at 2:30 PM</b>.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-48698325115674099802016-05-22T14:58:00.000-04:002016-06-09T15:54:28.841-04:00Dramatists Guild's Special Issue of The Dramatist spotlights Nikkole Salter & Danai Gurira<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The latest issue of the Dramatist Guild's magazine "The Dramatist" is just out. It features playwrights <b>Nikkole Salter</b> & <b>Danai Gurira</b> interviewing each other. Ten years ago they co-wrote and performed their acclaimed play <i>In the Continuum</i>. This February the venerable <b>Crossroads Theatre Company</b> filmed and aired Nikkole's play <i>Repairing A Nation </i>for <i>Thirteen's "Theatre Close-up." </i>Also in February, <b>The Public Theater's</b> production of Danai's play <i>Eclipsed </i>transferred to Broadway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Under the direction of Daniel Alexander Jones, this production of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Gem of the Ocean</i> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">employs the theatrical jazz aesthetics that rest on “the break”—the jazz space where improvisation happens, where the unknown is sought, where Black life is allowed to flourish free of externally imposed sanctions. This fertile space of new possibilities is precisely what the present moment of racial turmoil demands."</span></div>
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Welcome to the 4th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival (CBTF) 2016
Each year the Columbus Black Theatre Festival brings to the capital city of Ohio original plays that pertain not only to the African American community but society at large and 2016 will be no different.
If you are interested in submitting your play to the 4th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival, now is the time. The CBTF will be accepting original plays for consideration from playwrights starting October 31, 2015 through February 28, 2016 for the July 8-10th, 2016 festival. We will notify the winners selected by March 15, 2016 by email and telephone.
The CBTF is a self-producing festival which provides a full-service, supportive platform....
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-1914740977971654882016-01-25T13:18:00.000-05:002016-01-25T13:18:08.421-05:00Horizon Theatre Company in ATL
New South Play Festival Mission
The New South Play Festival has been dedicated to producing new plays from, for, and about the contemporary South since 1999. The Festival focuses on new plays by writers who live or have roots in the South, creating stories that our relevant to our community today. The Festival is particularly interested in plays by women and African Americans.
Submission Policy
We accept the following types of submissions:
Agent submissions that meet our mission
Previously professionally produced plays that meet our mission
For plays with no previous professional productions, the play must meet the mission of the New South Play Festival
We do not accept submissions of unproduced plays by individual writers that do not meet our New South Play Festival mission
If your plays meet one of the criteria listed above, please submit the following to submissions@horizontheatre.com (scripts are only accepted electronically):
Name, cover letter addressing how your play fits with our mission, brief bio and/or resume
One-page synopsis including brief description of the play, character breakdown and setting.
10-page dialogue sample from the script
If we are interested in further exploration of the play, we will request a full script (please do not send a full script with your initial inquiry).
http://www.horizontheatre.com/get-involved/play-submissions/
Please submit your work to us only if it meets our mission statements. You will receive an electronic acknowledgment of receipt of your materials. After that, we will be in touch ONLY if we are interested in reading the entire script.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-14106431139881119932016-01-20T16:48:00.000-05:002016-01-20T16:48:38.647-05:00Submissions in Fort Worth, TXJubilee Theatre creates professional productions which reflect the African-American experience. Jubilee Theatre is committed to producing new works which help further the mission of the theatre. As a result, we do accept play submissions from established and new playwrights.
Season planning begins in January of each year and is usually concluded around mid-April. The best time to submit scripts is the beginning of each year.
We ask all playwrights to submit the following in order for Jubilee to consider a script:
Letter of intent (no more than 500 words) addressing how the work reflects the African-American experience.
Resume, including contact information.
The full script.
Stamped, self-addressed post card if you want to receive acknowledgment of receipt.
Your application should include ONLY the above materials and be mailed to:
Glenda Thompson, Managing Director
Jubilee Theatre Play Submissions
506 Main Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Applicants may be contacted and asked to supply other plays they have written, references, and/or other materials.
Please note: Due to the large number of scripts that Jubilee receives, we are not able to respond to or provide feedback for playwrights. No phone calls please.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-76148931808271617322016-01-12T00:37:00.002-05:002016-01-12T00:37:38.932-05:00Submitting Your Scripts to SOHO - EnglandSUBMITTING YOUR WORK TO SOHO THEATRE
We are looking for unique and unheard voices – from all backgrounds, attitudes and places.
There are no thematic, political or philosophical constraints and though we love to produce a writers’ first play, we have no objection to your second, third or fiftieth.
We are looking for work that:
• Can move people to laugh, cry, argue, protest, celebrate and act
• Resonates in the world today
• Is inherently theatrical and live
• Is risk-taking, brave and visionary
We only accept submissions via email. Please send your script as a PDF or Word attachment to submissions@sohotheatre.com. Your play will go directly to our Artistic team.
http://www.sohotheatre.com/writers/resources/script-reading/
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-17016635861778576872015-11-04T14:57:00.000-05:002015-11-04T14:57:03.967-05:00Save Funding for Black NYC Theatre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am writing to urge the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to reconsider/restore funding) of theatre’s Historic Black Theatre Organizations. My concerns focus on but are not limited to the drastic cuts in funding and/or de-funding of the Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Theatre and the Roger Furman New Heritage Repertory Theatre Company. They bring awareness, education and entertainment to the Black Community and the City at large. National and international partnerships have promoted culture exchange through internship, performances, productions and special events. </span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-33065080816395162872015-10-22T07:36:00.001-04:002015-10-22T07:36:57.566-04:00Tonight only: "A Conversation with Amiri Baraka and God" (East Orange, NJ)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For more information about this year's awards in black theatre, please click <a href="http://audelco.net/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-12000004404863289562015-10-19T13:53:00.001-04:002015-10-19T13:54:29.490-04:00Val Gray Ward's MY SOUL IS A WITNESS at Logan Center November 1st (Chicago)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Actress, producer, cultural activist and internationally known theater personality <b>Val Gray Ward</b> headlines the one-woman show, <i><b>“My Soul is a Witness,” </b></i>for one night only in a dramatic homecoming performance Sunday, November 1, 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“My Soul is a Witness” will feature the works of <b>James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Mari Evans, Richard Wright</b> and other African American literary giants, 17 characters, music and love poetry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This special performance is presented by the <b>Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts</b> in partnership with the <b>DuSable Museum of African American History</b>. It will take place at <b><span style="color: red;">5:30 pm</span></b> at the Logan Center, located at 915 E. 60th Street. General admission is <b><span style="color: red;">$20/$10 students; $5 discount for groups of 10 or more</span></b>. Tickets may be purchased <a href="http://ticketsweb.uchicago.edu/calendar/2015-11-1" target="_blank">here</a> or by calling <b><span style="color: red;">773-702-ARTS</span></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Special guests are musical director and arranger <b>Robert “Baabe” Irving</b> and Emmy Award-winning vocalist <b>Joan Collaso</b>. Ward will be introduced by renowned poet <b>Sonia Sanchez</b> and welcomed home by <b>Julieanna Richardson</b> of <b>The Historymakers</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Val Gray Ward has made major contributions to the cultural life of Chicago and America through her work as dramatist, founder and principal creative force behind the<b> Kuumba Theatre</b>,” said <b>Bill Michel</b>, executive director of the Logan Center. “We are delighted to welcome her back home to Chicago by sponsoring this special presentation.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Founded in 1968, Kuumba is one of the early African American theaters to come out of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago. Kiswahili for clean up, create, and build, the theater was dedicated to the revitalization of the black community through the arts. With Kuumba, Ward produced and directed such plays as <i>The Amen Corner</i> by <b>James Baldwin</b>, <i>Welcome To Black River</i> by <b>Samm Art Williams</b>, <i>Five On The Black Hand Side</i> by <b>Charles Fuller </b>and <i>Sister Son/ji</i> by <b>Sonia Sanchez</b>. Ward took the cast and crew of <b>Useni Eugene Perkins</b>' play, <i>The Image Makers</i> to Lagos Nigeria as part of the FESTAC '77, an international African arts festival. She also brought Kuumba's musical production,<i> The Little Dreamer: The Life of Bessie Smith </i>to Japan in 1981 and produced <b>Buddy Butler's</b> <i>In The House of The Blues</i> in Montreal, Canada. Kuumba also toured in cities such as Louisville, Atlanta, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Montreal, and Osaka, Japan. Ward and company received <b>Emmy Awards</b> for the PBS television production of <i>Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street </i>in 1988. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I am absolutely delighted to return to Chicago where I have so many wonderful memories and so many amazing friends,” said Ward. “As we go into ourselves, we come to ourselves naturally.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When not producing, Ward performs one woman shows in the United States and abroad, including <i>Harriet Tubman</i> by <b>Francis Ward</b>, <i>Sister Sonji</i> by Sonia Sanchez and <i>I Am A Black Woman</i> which includes the poetry of <b>Mari Evans</b>. She also recorded a CD, <i>“Rhapsody in Hughes”</i> which was nominated for a Grammy Award.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Born Q. Valeria Gray on August 21, 1932 in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, one of America's oldest all black towns, Ward showed an early interest in performance beginning at age four in her father’s church. In 1951, she moved to Chicago where she became active in Chicago's African American cultural community. She was a regular at the South Side Community Arts Center and the DuSable Museum of African American History as she developed friendships with <b>Dr. Margaret Burroughs, Gwendolyn Brooks, Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti) </b>and <b>Abena Joan Brown</b>. She was mentored by Dr. Burroughs, <b>Margaret Walker </b>and <b>Hoyt Fuller</b>. For 50 years Val Gray Ward has been married to journalist <b>Francis Ward</b>. She is the mother of five children, grandmother of five and great grandmother of eight children.
She is the recipient of numerous awards; most recently she received the <i>Benjamin Banneker Lifetime Achievement Award</i> with her husband, Francis, in the Spoken Word category; the King Arts Complex <i>“Legends & Legacies”</i> <i>Award</i> in Columbus, OH, the <i>DuSable Museum Lifetime Membership Award</i> and the <i>100 Black Women Award.</i> She has received the keys to the cities of Detroit, Osaka, Japan and Tuskegee, Alabama. She is most proud of the generosity of <b>Ollye B. Shirley</b>, a childhood friend who has given 38 acres to build a museum in her name in her hometown of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In conjunction with <i>“My Soul is a Witness,” </i>at <b><span style="color: red;">2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 25th, DuSable Museum of African American History</span></b> presents <i>“Precious Memories: Strolling 47th Street,”</i> a documentary film written by Francis Ward, which reenacts the days when 47th street was the entertainment hub of Black Chicago. Following the film there will be a Q & A with Val Gray Ward, the film’s director, and<i> Precious Memories’</i> cast members. <b><span style="color: red;">General Admission is $10; $5 DuSable members.</span></b> DuSable Museum is located at 740 E. 56th Place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Logan Center is a multidisciplinary home for the arts at the University of Chicago. Logan Center public programs include events, exhibitions, and performances from world-class, emerging, local, and student artists.
Logan Center programs are made possible through the support of the Milken Institute, Michael and Patricia Klowden, the Reva and David Logan Foundation, and friends of the Logan Center, as well as partnerships with local and national arts organizations and performing artists. Visit www.logan.uchicago.edu to learn more. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-35106842880124205992015-10-13T17:06:00.002-04:002015-10-13T17:06:53.806-04:00Marlon James wins 2015 Man Booker Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Author of <b><i>A Brief History of Seven Killings</i></b> – a fictional account of an attempt to take Bob Marley’s life – is the first Jamaican writer to win prestigious prize. To read more, please click <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/13/marlon-james-wins-the-man-booker-prize-2015" target="_blank">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-92185930568331580332015-08-17T18:51:00.001-04:002015-08-17T19:02:58.934-04:00AAPEX's Favorite Playwright, Actor, and Director Petronia Paley Understudies for Cicely Tyson on Broadway's THE GIN GAME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tony Award winners <b>James Earl Jones</b> and <b>Cicely Tyson</b> will co-star in a Broadway revival of <b>D.L. Coburn's</b> Pulitzer Prize-winning play,<b><i> The Gin Game</i></b>, which will begin previews September 23rd at the <b>Golden Theatre</b>. To learn more about Ms. Paley, please click her name in the Label below. You can read more here: <a href="http://bit.ly/1WA0v10">http://bit.ly/1WA0v10</a></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-35899055806158317672015-05-30T14:06:00.001-04:002015-05-30T14:06:33.458-04:00Petronia Paley's All-Woman JULIUS CAESAR 6/8 (Harlem)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984422169665538384.post-6649851329811929962015-05-30T13:36:00.001-04:002015-05-30T14:13:57.588-04:00World Premiere of Rain Pryor's FRIED CHICKEN & LATKES-- June 2nd - 28th (Harlem)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>New Federal Theatre </b>and<b> National Black Theatre</b> presents the hilariously, irreverent and poignant “Fried Chicken & Latkes.” Directed by <b>Kamilah Forbes</b>, this is <b>Rain Pryor's</b> one woman theatrical, cabaret-styled show based on her life growing up Black and Jewish. Along the way she offers a unique perspective on race, identity and the loss of her iconic father <b>Richard Pryor</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Purchase tickets <a href="http://www.nationalblacktheatre.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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