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Playwright | Program Manager | Probably inside
Memphis made + Brooklyn living

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Untitled, my co-created playwrights lab @allstarsprojectinc supported the development of our 40th play with a reading of @sean.fletcher.ny’s APALACHICOLA or ONE BY ONE and we have to give love to our actors @masonthomashensley @concado @caryhite @lizardnarciso @nicolemariehuntactor @tarverbernard and yours truly, as well as everyone who came out to support Sean’s process. Next month, we have a reading of a new play by @garrettmturner and a December reading by @megantobiass, so we’re closing the year with a bang!

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Untitled, my co-created playwrights lab @allstarsprojectinc supported the development of our 39th play with a reading of @giowritesstuff526’s THE NAMELESS THING BETWEEN US and we have to give love to our actors @masonthomashensley @marsannatalieestelle @gregkwarr and @ajamahogany as well as everyone who came out to support Gio’s process. Next month, we have a reading of a new play by @sean.fletcher.ny and we have to thank @theatrerow for giving us a temporary home!

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A new draft of my solo show BLACK AND BLUE was born, courtesy of the amazing Michael Bradford Residency with @quicksilverthtr! Much love to @tyrone_m_henderson and the remarkable artists @smanga_yahart @s.tyrone.writes @calley_ands @laraishadionne for their generosity, love, and support during our time at Lake Harmony, PA. Keep a look out for their plays because this crew is an incredibly talented bunch!

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Got’em. The @quicksilverthtr Michael Bradford Residency playwrights have arrived. Day 1: sitting on the dock, late night chit chats, cocktails, whatcha workin’ on,swag bags, and joy.

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Spending three days working on @calley_ands’s THE GRIORAPHET SPEAKS ON SUNDAYS with @natblacktheatre alongside this amazing cast was a true gift. Much love to Jerrica White for her direction and for creating such a joyful rehearsal room!

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What an amazing week. Shoutout to @natblacktheatre for always curating an amazing space. And shoutout to @calley_ands for this world-saving work! 🙏🏾🖤

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Honored to be chosen for @quicksilverthtr’s Michael Bradford residency alongside some amazing writers, including @calley_ands and @s.tyrone.writes! Excited to work on my solo show BLACK AND BLUE and to have some time and space to rest and recharge. Link with more info is in my bio!

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QSTC is pleased to announce our Michael Bradford Residency participants. Our finalists will spend four days lakeside while developing their new works.
This year’s playwrights include:
Calley N. Anderson — Hot Seat: Can you really redress harm? A group of unnamed ex-associates gather for a restorative-adjacent circle with their former tormentor to find out.
LaRaisha Dionne — An American Coup Braids three timelines into one theatrical event: 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, where a white supremacist mob destroys the nation’s only Negro daily newspaper and overthrows the elected government in America’s only successful coup d’état.
Rebecca S’manga-Frank — Valence is about sex, death, and intimacy through the lens of intersecting identity, power, dependency, liberation, love, and “the unknown.”
Reynaldo Piniella — solo show, Black and Blue Black is about a Black boy living in a society that doesn’t like it when our Black men show vulnerability, and this sensitive boy learns to bottle up his feelings and internalize his trauma.
Stephen Tyrone Williams — COMPROMISE(D) is a 2-person legal drama, set in St. Louis in 1835. It is inspired by the true story of John Berry Meachum, a free black man and target of a misdirected lawsuit who must decide whether to compromise his core beliefs to win the case when his best line of defense becomes the argument of slavery.

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Untitled, my co-created playwrights lab @allstarsprojectinc supported the development of our 38th play with a reading of Cate Wiley’s play THE TAKE LINE and we have to give love to our actors @jessie.heesacker, @kathysearle, @mr.beethovanoden, @kevinrfree, @willowthesingingtree, @seanmeehanx, @thenancysun and @tarverbernard as well as everyone who came out in the rain to support Cate’s process. Next month, we have a reading of a new play by @giowritesstuff526 and we have to thank @theatrerow for giving us a temporary home!

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in the meantime

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Acting, my first creative love. ✨

Thank you for ushering me into the world of what my creative nature can be,

The ever expanding creative network that equally expands me,

And all the moments you teach me more about myself and living.

I am always grateful for the right opportunities to return to you.

And by “right,” I mean the projects that change me, deepen my connection to my purpose and challenge me to continue clarifying my “why” fueling me to create and constantly evolve.

You remind me of the power of my passions, voice, thoughts, mind and body -

How intrinsically connected I am to them.

How impactful and resonant they can be.

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THANK YOU to this cast of creatives for a process generous in spirit, thoughtful in questioning, rich in knowledge and trusting in authentic perspective-to-perspective connection.

@calley_ands what you wrote is art and collaboration with grounded artists like you is one of my greatest joys. Xx 😘

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