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Selected credits include The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America (HERE), Jazz (Marin Theatre Company & Baltimore Center Stage), The First Noel (Classical Theatre of Harlem), A Last Dance for Sybil, and the Obie-winning June and Jean in Concert (Signature Theatre). As literary associate and archivist for Dee-Davis Enterprises, she served as executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. She is associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer’s Unit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188054855-LCDK8G9TT91FXS8O4UQ2/AJ.jpg The Team - AJ Muhammad A.J. Muhammad As a dramaturg/researcher, A.J. Muhammad has worked on The Black History Museum...(HERE Arts Center), "CLASSIX: A Reading Series Celebrating Classic Plays by Black Playwrights" curated and produced by Awoye Timpo; "In The Case of..." (Columbia University); "Comida De Puta" (MultiStages) and others. He has been a dramaturg/research assistant for director, educator and activist Daniel Banks for over the past two decades. A.J. is currently on the producing team for the OBIE award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. He is also a librarian in the Jean Blackwell Research and Reference Division at the Schomburg Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188128301-195NULEBSONWJ2CCEVK7/Dominique.jpeg The Team - Dominique Rider Dominique Rider Dominique is a director and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, New York. They believe in l[i/o]ving like it is the end of the world. They have worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Hatian Cultural Exchange, MCC, The Old Globe, The Lark, Soho Rep, The Atlantic, The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Long Wharf, Flux Theatre Ensemble, WP, The Movement Theatre Company, and The Black Lady Theatre. They are the director in residence for the National Black Theatre through 2021, a NAMT 2019 observer, an inaugural member of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Directing Group, as well as an inaugural member of Mabou Mines’ Marker’s program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188013229-3V7EMBT8K93NXVO6XZ4S/Brittany.jpg The Team - Brittany Bradford Brittany Bradford Brittany Bradford is an actor, producer, and teaching artist. Acting credits include: Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Off Broadway: MacBeth (Hunter Theater Project), Fiasco’s Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), NYC/Regional credits: Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre for a New Audience); Guys and Dolls (The Muny); Flyin’ West (Westport Country Playhouse); Family Resemblance (Eugene O’Neill); The Profane and Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ten Thousand Things Theatre); Neighbors, Avenue Q, and Next to Normal (Mixed Blood Theatre); Ragtime and Stick Fly (Park Square Theatre). Training: Juilliard. Line Producer on Say Her Name, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of HomeBase Theatre Collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188654147-TOLX3IN07CJHQOEG1UHN/Awoye.jpeg The Team - Awoye Timpo Awoye Timpo Awoye is a New York-based director. Off- Broadway directing credits include In Old Age (New York Theatre Workshop), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm), and The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed Pipeline (Studio Theatre), Everybody Black (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre). Additional credits include Carnaval (National Black Theatre), Sister Son/ji (Billie Holiday Theatre) and Ndebele Funeral (59E59 Theaters, Edinburgh Festival/Summerhall, and South African tour). She is a Creative Director for music events and a Creative Consultant for the African-American Policy Forum. https://www.theclassix.org/mailinglist daily 0.75 2021-09-22 https://www.theclassix.org/ourteam daily 0.75 2023-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592185700661-3J7JB3YLDFQ0EWUCAESV/0DFE6751-76DD-4AD5-BCC6-518F31BB82FF.jpeg Our Team Awoye Timpo Awoye is a Brooklyn-based Director and Producer. Her New York credits include Elyria by Deepa Purohit (Atlantic Theater), Wedding Band by Alice Childress (Theatre for a New Audience), In Old Age by Mfoniso Udofia (New York Theatre Workshop), The Loophole by Jay Adana and Zeniba Britt (Public Theater), Carnaval by Nikkole Salter (National Black Theatre), Good Grief by Ngozi Anyanwu (Vineyard Theatre and Audible) and The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed The Bluest Eye (Huntington), Pipeline (Studio Theatre), Paradise Blue (Long Wharf), Everybody Black (Actors Theatre of Louisville), School Girls (Berkeley Rep), Jazz (Marin Theatre Company). Other projects include concert performances for independent artists and for the NBA, Ndebele Funeral (59E59, Edinburgh, South African Tour), “Black Picture Show” (Artists Space/Metrograph), and Bluebird Memories (Audible). Awoye is a Creative Arts Consultant for the African American Policy Forum and a Founding Member of CLASSIX. Photo Credit: Hollis King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1596049610931-YKQH5OF1078UPJF09QHY/Brittany.jpeg Our Team Brittany Bradford Brittany Bradford is an actor, director, producer, and teaching artist. Acting credits include: Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Wedding Band (Obie Award Winner, TFANA), Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA), Mac Beth (Hunter College), Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout/Fiasco Theater), TV: “Julia” (HBO Max), “The Watcher” (Netflix), “The Gilded Age” (HBO Max), “Dead Ringers” (Amazon), “Fire Country” (CBS), “Fear The Walking Dead” (AMC), “New Amsterdam” (NBC). Film: “The Same Storm” (dir. Peter Hedges). Classix member and HomeBase Theater Collective founder. Training: Juilliard. Photo Credit: David Noles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188094721-W4SWYOF2FYJ6CQ6XRWWT/2D643729-5B82-42BB-9E2B-8CFF8BFF766B.jpeg Our Team Dominique Rider Dominique is a Brooklyn based director whose work seeks to answer the question: “What is a world unmade by slavery?” while attempting to analyze the layers of anti-blackness that maintain the world we live in. Deploying theatre and performance as tools of Afropessimism, Dominique has developed and staged work with Audible, The New Group, NYTW, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Princeton, Rattlestick, BRIC Arts, Two River, Portland Center Stage, and more. Past fellowships/residencies include TheaterWorks Hartford, NYSAF, BRIC Arts, Roundabout, and NAMT. Currently Dominique is a resident director at The National Black Theatre and a producer with CLASSIX. Photo credit: Sedderick Raphael https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/5182a3f2-7f6c-4065-bb95-a941e7163c9c/Headshot-AJ+Muhammad+%28updated+June+2023%29.jpg Our Team A.J. Muhammad A.J. Muhammad has served as a dramaturg for plays produced and developed by NEC Inc., New Federal Theatre, HERE Arts Center, MultiStages Theater and various plays directed by Daniel Banks in the U.S. and internationally. He is on the producing teams of the OBIE winning The Fire This Time Festival, CLASSIX, and is also a co-founder the Grove Theater NYC, Inc. with Nedra Marie Taylor. He collaborated with Neyda Martinez on the development and implementation of the New Audience Project which was the recipient of a Rockefeller Grant. He is also a librarian at the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture. Photo Credit: Bob Gore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1592188186414-CPABOM2K252SDE7PQI4J/6ECAB936-5D69-4D98-BD61-83DBE2BEAD0C.jpeg Our Team Arminda Thomas Arminda Thomas (she/her) is a dramaturg, director, and archivist. She is a resident dramaturg and producing member of CLASSIX, and a resident dramaturg/curator for New Perspectives Theatre’s On Her Shoulders reading series. She has served as associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival and Writer’s Unit and as archivist and literary manager for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she was an executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. Selected dramaturgy credits include The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Brooklyn Academy of Music and Broadway), Death of a Salesman (Hudson Theatre), Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience), Black Picture Show (Artists Space), Mirrors (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), Black History Museum...According to the United States of America (HERE Arts Center), and Jazz (Marin Theatre Company). Photo Credit: Katie Piper Photography https://www.theclassix.org/our-vision daily 0.75 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1600320478386-GKKVN8I2IAYHPVQCAN3G/onyx-mudcloth-fabric_large%2525281%252529.jpg Our Vision - Readings and Productions CLASSIX aims to work with theaters nationwide and around the world to support curation of the Black classical canon inside theater seasons. This is also a collaboration with individual artists looking to create new productions and adaptations of these plays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1600320190941-QIBILH3N19DAQ6HH816V/tribal-ethnic-colorful-bohemian-pattern-with-geometric-elements-african-mud-cloth-tribal-design-1732992-1479422.png Our Vision - Narrative The narrative component of CLASSIX is all about how we tell stories about these plays. The guiding principle is how can we create resources about these authors and these productions that engage their biography, give context to the eras in which the plays were created and find continued ways to celebrate the incredible artistry of the theater makers. Through essays, podcasts, seminars and social media there are infinite stories to be told. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1600282978478-ZIIQCJH7NENMQ9J8QMFI/e98512618439afcdbeabbabbbefdbeff.gif Our Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1600320118748-U971CPT0H9VW6G31TQ9R/beige-designer-stencils-stencils-fs022-64_1000.jpg Our Vision - Education The education pillar is about the myriad ways to engage the Black theater canon in academia. This is through transforming the curriculum to include a wider array of plays in teaching, scene study and production. Additionally, the education pillar aims to look at how these plays can be taught across disciplines as ways to look at history, politics, African-American studies, economics, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1600320414644-0I9AA0QEA7G8BNQ2HEF7/onyx-mudcloth-fabric_medium%25282%2529.jpg Our Vision - Publication CLASSIX is beginning the work to publish new editions of both the plays that are hardest to access. Some of this work will be to create a reader of a selected playwright’s plays, some will be to create larger profiles of artists whose stories need to be chronicled. The Legends Series will interview living legends to capture their lifetime of work in the theater and publish these stories in new collections. Lastly, this pillar will include new scholarly writing and essays about Black theater history as it relates to the Black theater future. https://www.theclassix.org/donate daily 0.75 2022-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/995d79f3-d4de-4060-97bd-572dbd021e5d/IMG_6145.JPG Donate - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theclassix.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-22 https://www.theclassix.org/act-1-overview daily 0.75 2023-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/5194a0e9-81ff-4482-90f8-44fff915f3ab/Original+Georgia+Minstrels+poster+%28Orlando+Schubert%2C+1876%29.jpg Act 1: Black Performance in the Era of Minstrelsy - ACT 1: Black Performance in the Era of Minstrelsy This act takes us on a six-episode journey, from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, following the performers, writers, and producers of this underexplored era - their triumphs, challenges and the shows they created. https://www.theclassix.org/events daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1763571687696-DD7LF7V17NDCSG49EK6U/anna%2Blucasta.jpg Events - Big Plays in the Little Library Theater (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756516940460-ZIUA3Q6KFO4MWLDI9G8E/billie1.jpeg Events - Baraka and Rahman (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756487761150-VX8I74ZWZ8QNNBXJ1FS1/tbw.jpeg Events - This Bright Wilderness (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756488101494-FRK5V49AP4VXO8SCH8U6/castalbumproject.jpg Events - Running Man Cast Album (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756494338671-6QFWMMGZ3U9JJ5PGIYMU/2023-space-conversations-program-banner-new.png Events - The Theme Is Blackness (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756488626067-VMJ8ZC9U5E6KPXZGWBMB/TFANA+Wedding+Band+2+%28c%29+Henry+Grossman.jpg Events - Wedding Band (2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756606634398-TUVZRRTBP3ADURYNOFCO/Shuffle-Along-Poster_1080x1920.jpg Events - Reactivating Memory (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756490632419-W1A4QUG77J6R15MLLBWG/Black-Picture-Show-Bill-Gunn-16.jpg Events - Black Picture Show (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756488813329-FI6LVQ8EF32A18U6SUQS/CLASSIX-30March.Event+Poster.jpg Events - A Past Becomes a Heritage (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756488985703-8WU0JRR8BV7BXFKR6T5U/classix.jpg.webp Events - Classix Inaugural Readings (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756742037599-4HUXVUJ1FA27TSSIJ53W/PCS_Logo_Left_Justify_Stacked.png Events - Artists and Revolution (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756742803329-R2IAP1LAXA9TQOS8WDCB/twtalks.webp Events - Defining the Classix (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756741858275-0CIRPSFP73KVG0MXCV7N/dca02332834b97b6b7634da95f8a504e-manhattan-theatre-club-mtc-logo-hr.jpg Events - Artists in Conversation (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756743197052-KH2N440UK0XEXTKCI4J2/places-everyone_final.jpeg Events - Places, Everyone (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756741067871-GYULQ3LDJJK5NE2T33QT/Hunter_college_logo.png Events - Wed @ 1, Hunter College (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756489185015-RN52JHMOUGS9DG5BX6LK/wine1.jpeg Events - Wine in the Wilderness (2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756489216870-OYURSZKYJDJ91BVED4WO/duke3.webp Events - Collins and Gunn Symposium (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756489296057-FU704L13CCGCEVID0DIT/troubleinmindhartford.jpg Events - Trouble in Mind (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756489314275-Q1AANFC0R133U252H411/revivalswesleyan.png Events - Revivals in the Dark (2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1756489366038-9YK1R7PDQUEXOXJ5LB1G/Convergence1.png Events - Classix Convergence (2021) https://www.theclassix.org/act1-ep1-the-georgia-minstrels-1865-1878 daily 0.75 2022-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1617818259707-8G9VZM1F79P7DF05E6QE/%2528Ep%2B1%2529%2BOriginal%2BGeorgia%2BMinstrels%2Bposter%2B%2528Orlando%2BSchubert%252C%2B1876%2529.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619807334058-XRZ8ND5ULFLN44OT7CYX/Rhiannon+Giddens+headshot.jpg Act 1, Ep1 - Rhiannon Giddens Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019). Giddens’s forthcoming album, They’re Calling Me Home, also a collaboration with Turrisi, is due out this April and features songs of her heritage, sung to console her while she has been unable to go home to her native North Carolina due to the ongoing pandemic. Giddens has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series “Nashville”. She has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS in 2019, where she speaks about the African American origins of country music. She is also a member of the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players - and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Giddens was recently named Artistic Director of Silkroad Ensemble, with whom she is developing a number of new programs, including The American Silkroad, an exploration of the music of the American transcontinental railroad and it’s builders. She has also written the music for an original ballet, Lucy Negro Redux (the first ballet written by women of color for a black prima ballerina), and the libretto and music for an original opera, Omar, based on the autobiography of the enslaved man Omar Ibn Said. Giddens’s lifelong mission is to lift up people of color whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717275607-7H68K81MG8626QZZ7RIJ/1.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717275063-ZLDNR63DGZPUQ0UK51PO/2.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717275161-DK3JWNI3O8E5C69P11ND/3.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717274070-TY7FA5JX3LS4BDK19NKC/4.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717273998-TBUWQKENSZJ5GQV3QHQ3/5.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717273176-2VS1633L3I45S25AUVKZ/6.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717272789-GDXJ1X4MK5Q7ACK579EC/7.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717272392-6AYFSSATI0BZSRVJLJPA/8.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717271991-H1IZITB0KRDOZ498W3TA/9.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717271740-XXPIZROGG66SP3YH0KD6/10.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717269536-FOZU4DPM88NSPCAFWJE5/14.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717269181-7PMFQ7H1N4ZSFGOD4QDI/15.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717268232-6JBD5FV08LE6WFT2VH0V/16.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717271417-RMN43XJROA7O5TORJZII/11.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717270348-GFC8YMM7NLYCBZK7XM51/12.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717267934-W7ECEY17BRIE3E1ADX14/17.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717267187-EEX0SP0ZZNBW7GP5YMF9/18.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717266714-HONBJ6169LBEA9SQIVVD/19.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717264984-QCC4MYHY58XR7VXI1N9I/20.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717264919-G90QAG9B6FW8K2F9QOU7/21.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623717270354-JIO3G84J87JYVPL3XQQF/13.jpg Act 1, Ep1 https://www.theclassix.org/act1-ep3-black-musical-beginnings-1894-1909 daily 0.75 2022-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809269748-YQIEBKBMDV9W8Y3EJFHP/%28Ep+3%29+Frogs_Club.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 - The Frogs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1617809322941-JKW9ZR6HAJM0S9WYDPJ8/Screen+Shot+2564-04-07+at+11.28.06.png Act 1, Episode 3 - Michael Dinwiddie Michael Dinwiddie is an award-winning playwright/composer and associate professor of dramatic writing at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He is editor of the upcoming Theatre Communications Group (TCG) publication On Holy Ground: An Anthology of Plays and Monologues from the National Black Theatre Festival. A dramatist whose works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theater, Michael has served on the boards of New Federal Theatre, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, and the Black Theatre Network, among others. He is a contributing editor of Black Masks Magazine, and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Television Academy. Select honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the FAMU Theatre Medal, a Walt Disney Writers Fellowship at Touchstone Pictures, the NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal, and induction into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658091828589-99I8SUW5JOF99175V4H0/%28Ep+3-01%29+Ernest+Hogan%2C+c+1901.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658087088099-YE47H6RNHRZB6N5QUS4W/Hogan_All+Coons+Look+Alike+%28sheet+music%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809269048-YEB1WMEJ8JK8R4CDP51A/%28Ep+3%29+Bob+Cole%2C+c.+1898.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086283622-GDACLZ1MV00AZTBRJQJU/1897-11-15+Trenton+Evening+Times_A+Trip+To+Coontown+review.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086177356-Q5V4DBIQZM2D91K67SMI/%28Ep+3%29+Bob+Cole+as+Willie+Wayside+%28Kansas+City+Star%2C+1898-12-17%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809265988-BVYMNDYO2SF7J911AQ2S/%28Ep+3%29+Williams+and+Walker.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086461457-GUOP38DG8UDE1LI24DTT/1895-12-15+Los+Angeles+Herald_Williams+and+Walker+blurb.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086176540-66V7OBMFUFBVM49APRBE/%28Ep+3%29+1897-03-07+Brooklyn+Daily+Eagle_Williams+and+Walker+ad.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809265005-0E4HZAQTBU7KLWYRZZ5B/%28Ep+3%29+Aida+Overton+and+George+Walker.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809268067-QMCTABXSXDEECSMXFKRQ/%28Ep+3%29+Cole%2C_Johnson_and_Johnson+%28Schomburg+Ctr%2C+Public+Domain%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658087858818-LKS6FO205K4QN0WCXBMA/1906-08-21+Evening+Star+%28Washington+DC%29_Bob+Cole_Shoo-Fly+Regiment+review.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086646342-X61XM2HP5GZPEG3CSTXG/%28Ep+3%29+Cole+and+Johnson_ShooFly+Regiment+%281906%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658086176540-PTW8KP3OOM0NXMPW10CI/%28Ep+3%29+1908-07-09+New+York+Age_The+Frogs+organization+%28Walker%2C+Williams%2C+Cole%2C+Johnson%2C+etc%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809269748-YQIEBKBMDV9W8Y3EJFHP/%28Ep+3%29+Frogs_Club.jpg Act 1, Episode 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1617888833001-YQZ2E8704YE8MEX9PH25/Screen+Shot+2564-04-08+at+09.33.38.png Act 1, Episode 3 - Rhiannon Giddens Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019). Giddens’s forthcoming album, They’re Calling Me Home, also a collaboration with Turrisi, is due out this April and features songs of her heritage, sung to console her while she has been unable to go home to her native North Carolina due to the ongoing pandemic. Giddens has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series “Nashville”. She has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS in 2019, where she speaks about the African American origins of country music. She is also a member of the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players - and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Giddens was recently named Artistic Director of Silkroad Ensemble, with whom she is developing a number of new programs, including The American Silkroad, an exploration of the music of the American transcontinental railroad and it’s builders. She has also written the music for an original ballet, Lucy Negro Redux (the first ballet written by women of color for a black prima ballerina), and the libretto and music for an original opera, Omar, based on the autobiography of the enslaved man Omar Ibn Said. Giddens’s lifelong mission is to lift up people of color whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.” https://www.theclassix.org/act1-ep4-the-end-of-the-beginning-1910-1922 daily 0.75 2022-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809209320-37PRW3RC04IANXJOJ4XZ/%28Ep+4%29+Aida+Overton+Walker%2C+1912.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 - Aida Overton Walker 1912 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/be886f94-2332-467a-982a-e63640bfd832/rhiannon.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 - Rhiannon Giddens Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens has been Grammy-nominated six times, and won once, for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded. She was most recently nominated for her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019). Giddens’s forthcoming album, They’re Calling Me Home, also a collaboration with Turrisi, is due out this April and features songs of her heritage, sung to console her while she has been unable to go home to her native North Carolina due to the ongoing pandemic. Giddens has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series “Nashville”. She has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, which aired on PBS in 2019, where she speaks about the African American origins of country music. She is also a member of the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players - and produced their album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Giddens was recently named Artistic Director of Silkroad Ensemble, with whom she is developing a number of new programs, including The American Silkroad, an exploration of the music of the American transcontinental railroad and it’s builders. She has also written the music for an original ballet, Lucy Negro Redux (the first ballet written by women of color for a black prima ballerina), and the libretto and music for an original opera, Omar, based on the autobiography of the enslaved man Omar Ibn Said. Giddens’s lifelong mission is to lift up people of color whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration,” and Smithsonian Magazine calls her “an electrifying artist who brings alive the memories of forgotten predecessors, white and black.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658259766754-A3HGWQ9QGHBLMW4XLY4G/%28Ep+4%29+1908-08-08+Washington+Bee_Williams+Walker+Bandana+Land.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253992188-AIH0EGGVSV7ZBLLP77SO/%28Ep+4+%29+1911-01-08+New+York+Times_George+Walker+obit.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253991732-TA1XKF5ZHGNAT7BESTOI/%28Ep+4%29+1911-01-12+New+York+Age_LW+on+George+Walker.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658260270501-H3P5XNYETZWTWNW96J56/1910-06-26+New+York+Times_Ziegfield%27s+Follies+of+1910+%28feat+Bert+Williams%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253997571-CGQJKMDM0POD5ZO3Z7FO/%28Ep+4%29+Aida+Overton+-+Smart+Set.png Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658259540183-E29WW3D3NKEW8B5DL1TT/%28Ep+3%29+Bob+Cole+and+J.+Rosamond+Johnson+%28By+Maud+Cuney-Hare%2C+1874-1936%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658254004280-AN1YX0YYOI3L1N8ZR61V/%28Ep+4%29+The_New_York_Age_Thu__Aug_10__1911+%28excerpt+from+Bob+Cole+obit%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658254007984-QD8LRTIKAFN58RP5L9W2/%28Ep+4%29+Washington_Bee_Sat__Aug_12__1911+%28re+Bob+Cole%27s+death%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253990581-BWF2FHGZ7HR4F1I6TL6W/%28Ep+4%29+1911-01-12+New+York+Age_Lester+Walton+Column+logo.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658254012186-BRA6GH4JH3V4CRVATGKV/%28Ep+4-02%29+1912-09-05+New+York+Age_Frogs+Minstrel+Show.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809090913-T7J79RSWJFIB6WYXQHXF/%28Ep+4%29+Aida+Overton+Walker.+1913.png Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253992391-1C4NTNFFOASVZSVMO9G4/%28Ep+4%29+1914-10-15+New+York+Age_Aida+Overton+Walker+Dies.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809091980-COYZO395CM08QPOWRVWI/%28Ep+4%29+sam+lucas+1911+%28New+York+Sun+photo%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658254364951-7A89Y4YFQKNFRI0LQ42X/%28Ep+4%29+1916-01-20+New+York+Age_JWJ+on+Sam+Lucas.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253999363-1SSGD4LEMJW42AC5D2VJ/%28Ep+4%29+Anita+Bush+%28New+York+Age%2C+12-30-15%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253995043-DBQ8E0RXNI7ROX5B1NFC/%28Ep+4%29+1916-01-13+New+York+Age_LW+on+Anita+Bush+Stock+Players+%28at+Lafayette+Theatre%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809091664-H0NKM4XAK0JEYYR10H7M/%28Ep+4%29+Bert+Williams%2C+c.+1921+%28Samuel+Lumiere+studio%2C+New+York+City%2C+Public+domain%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658583082997-FQXF97DNG5JCOBT90XGW/%28Ep+4-18%29+1922-02-28+Pittsburgh_Press_Blurb+for+Under+the+Bamboo+Tree.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658253995345-QMWNH53UAXW5Z94SSRRH/%28Ep+4%29+1922-03-11+New+York+Age_JWJ+on+Bert+Williams.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809092308-UKWIG8CIAXTO16BJY92X/%28Ep+4%29+Under+The+Bamboo+Tree+%28sheet+music%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1617809172571-T52OG8BN966C4NBQRWP8/Screen+Shot+2564-04-07+at+11.25.55.png Act 1, Episode 4 - Ayana Thompson Ayanna Thompson is a Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, and the Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). She is the author of Blackface (Bloomsbury, 2021), Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (Arden Bloomsbury, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach, co-authored with Laura Turchi (Arden Bloomsbury, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge, 2008). She wrote the new introduction for the revised Arden3 Othello (Arden, 2016), and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave, 2010), and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (Routledge, 2006). She is currently collaborating with Curtis Perry on the Arden4 edition of Titus Andronicus. In 2021, Thompson was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 2020 she became a Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at The Public Theater in New York. She chairs the Council of Scholars at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, NY, serves on the board of Play On Shakespeare, and previously served on the board for Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, DC. She was the 2018-19 President of the Shakespeare Association of America and was one of Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholars for 2017-2018. From 2015-2017, Thompson served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Marshall Scholars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1617809322941-JKW9ZR6HAJM0S9WYDPJ8/Screen+Shot+2564-04-07+at+11.28.06.png Act 1, Episode 4 - Michael Dinwiddie Michael Dinwiddie is an award-winning playwright/composer and associate professor of dramatic writing at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He is editor of the upcoming Theatre Communications Group (TCG) publication On Holy Ground: An Anthology of Plays and Monologues from the National Black Theatre Festival. A dramatist whose works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theater, Michael has served on the boards of New Federal Theatre, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, and the Black Theatre Network, among others. He is a contributing editor of Black Masks Magazine, and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Television Academy. Select honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the FAMU Theatre Medal, a Walt Disney Writers Fellowship at Touchstone Pictures, the NYU Distinguished Teaching Medal, and induction into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. https://www.theclassix.org/act1-ep5-in-dahomey daily 0.75 2022-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1623718682584-CZERIKG1W7VHOITWF6PK/image-asset.png Act 1, Episode 5 - In Dahomey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658527212530-34MW7W69QAZ9TAS6L48B/%28Ep+5%29+In+Dahomey+cast+1902_2.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658526245228-DWB55MHLWEDGNPDI5BDQ/%28Ep+5%29+1902-9-23+Boston+Globe_In+Dahomey+%28AM+Hyers%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658260688324-ZYIA10A3PH6EDTHZ8BEL/%28Ep+5%29+Sylvester+Russell004.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658518093188-30ZTMYYSFVRFZOW8MI8A/%28Ep+5%29+1902-09-27+Indianapolis+Freeman_Russell+on+In+Dahomey+No+1.png Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658526378524-8PHTJEX8IQ4BRPZOPRZ4/1902-evah-dahkey-is-a-king-williams-walker-in-dahomey.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658550595596-ZOKP4421SMA8N3IDGQRO/%28Ep+5%29+In+Dahomey+%2C+I%27d+Like+to+Be+A+Real+Lady+%28sheet+music%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658518093146-85IBUOZ8Z3YMHDZHF6XJ/%28Ep+5%29+1902-10-25+Indianapolis+Freeman_Russell+on+In+Dahomey+Take+2.png Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658526378030-5LJG14FLH6JLQ6MH8UX9/%28Ep+5%29+In+Dahomey+Gatorsville.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658552564851-F7OZL9WHLVUK102DE2WH/%28Ep+5%29+In+Dahomey-Act+1+%28Williamses+Walkers+McIntosh%29.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658518094396-RTY3HETBOFQYJ1811JAI/%28Ep+5%29+1903-04-04+Indianapolis+Freman_Russell+on+In+Dahomey+Take+4.png Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658526377493-J9AE3YYME10FVF28D4C7/%28Ep+5%29+I%27m+a+Jonah+Man.jpeg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658526377491-FXJPC2AOCTJEMDORWT8Y/%28Ep+5%29+In+Dahomey+at+Shaftesbury%2C+London.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1619809519302-MX65PAPD5OGU74QHI2J8/%28Ep+5%29+george-w-walker-in-dahomey-by-cavendish-morton-1903-c2a9-national-portrait-gallery-london-1-of-6.jpg Act 1, Episode 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1658518096234-K6E8M7LJ7BVRYZZVWHVF/%28Ep+5%29+1904-10-01+Russell+on+In+Dahomey+Take+4.png Act 1, Episode 5 https://www.theclassix.org/act1-ep2-the-alt-minstrelsy-scene-1871-1897 daily 0.75 2022-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1657851286736-BNU66TUEBAH0QJV0FY1H/1867-04-19+The+Daily+Bee+%28Sacramento%29_Hyers+Family+Concert+advertisement.jpg Act 1, Ep2 - 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Susheel Bibbs Singer-actress-filmmaker Susheel Bibbs (Susheel) -- a graduate of Boston University School for the Arts and The New England Conservatory of Music -- has served the Arts and Humanities for over 30 years. Acclaimed internationally in opera and in concert, Bibbs is also a national Emmy winner and was once the youngest Executive Producer in the PBS system for a major international series. Recently, her films on unsung African-American heroine have won 17 international, film-festival awards and two international Telly’s. And Two have screened on PBS nationally. In 2012 she founded The Living Heritage Foundation to help expand the careers of other professional artists who have contributed to the Arts and Humanities. Bibbs has recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who Among Women, a profile on PBS Arts Showcase, the Willis Patterson Award for research in black classical song, and The San Francisco’s Supervisors’ Highest Commendation for her work in the Arts and Humanities. Two of her films – Meet Mary Pleasant, Mother of Civil Rights, and Voices for Freedom – The Hyers Sisters’ Legacy are screening on PBS; the Pleasant film is also available for rental or purchase on Amazon Prime Video. 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The breadth of her writing intersects with major movements of Black artistic and political thought, and yet, until recently her work has been relegated to the shadows. For Act 2 of (re)clamation, CLASSIX shines a light on the life, work and legacy of Alice Childress. https://www.theclassix.org/reclamation daily 0.75 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/d4bbfada-755a-49a3-b658-c1988d0b493d/reclamation_v2.jpg (re)clamation - Welcome to (re)clamation. A podcast that re-centers and uplifts the Black writers and storytellers of the theater - both the celebrated and the forgotten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/49d19dab-b757-4bc0-b337-7a3fbcf8d741/Original+Georgia+Minstrels+poster+%28Orlando+Schubert%2C+1876%29.jpg (re)clamation - ACT 1: Black Performance in the Era of Minstrelsy This act takes us on a six-episode journey, from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/cb397c15-eacc-40f4-9ba8-9b655cdf34d9/Childress-headshot.jpg (re)clamation - ACT 2: Alice Childress This act explores the life, work and legacy of the legendary Alice Childress. Begins January 16! https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-1 daily 0.75 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/f3058d5b-a7c7-438b-9e10-d588e5ad4b3a/arminda.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - Arminda Thomas Arminda Thomas is a dramaturg, archivist, and musician. Selected credits include The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America (HERE), Jazz (Marin Theatre Company), Zora is My Name (New Federal Theatre), and The First Noel (Classical Theatre of Harlem). She has worked as associate artistic director and resident dramaturg for the Going to the River Festival, and as literary associate and archivist for Dee-Davis Enterprises, where she served as executive producer for the Grammy-awarded audiobook, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together, and consultant for the film Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/3c2e6d0d-127f-4004-a5eb-029d5ac9fff9/-alice-childress.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 Alice Childress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842955790-WAO4R3LE5A9I0QJXYGCI/Atlanta+Daily+Voice%2C+c1946-Childress+in+Atlanta.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - Atlanta Daily Voice, c1946 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842951887-BLLCXM4G17FVD0L95XZH/1948-04-29+Press+and+Sun+Bulletin+%28Binghamton%2C+NY%29_AC+in+Rain%2C+pic.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - Alice Childress in “Rain”, Press and Sun Bulletin (Binghamton, NY), April 29, 1948 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842955477-BL05N899HGPZ1BWEOKDL/1950+New+York+Compass-Article+on+CNA%2C+Simple+Speaks+His+Mind.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - “Simple Speaks Mind for Negro in the Arts”, New York Compass, 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842956564-QIEKFRVO5A91XBH35HQN/ANT-On+Strivers+Row+%281941%29.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - “On Strivers Row” at the American Negro Theater (ANT), 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842951407-7KJY2QYT9P9QHH0HIM6S/Program-Just+a+Little+Simple_Florence%2C+Club+Baron%2C+1950.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - Program for “Just a Little Simple” and “Florence” at Club Baron, 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1673842956923-4SDRAAALNZADRLES2QS6/Clipping+of+AC+in+Anna+Lucasta.jpg Act 2, Episode 1 - Clipping of Alice Childress in “Anna Lucasta” https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-2 daily 0.75 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/994159bd-4dc6-4245-8425-8b7925135416/Kathy+Perkins.jpg Act 2, Episode 2 - Kathy A. Perkins Kathy Perkins bio Kathy Perkins is the editor of Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950, Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays, African Women Playwrights, Alice Childress: Selected Plays and Telling Our Stories of Home: International Performance Pieces by and about Women. She is co-editor of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, and Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women. She is a senior editor for the Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. In 1995 Perkins co-curated ONSTAGE: A Century of African American Stage Design at New York’s Lincoln Center. In 2016 she served as theatre consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture inaugural exhibition Taking the Stage. She has traveled to over forty countries as both designer and lecturer. She is the recipient of numerous research awards, including the Ford Foundation, Fulbright, United States Information Agency (USIA), New York Times Company, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). She is the recipient of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Career Achievement Award in Academic Theatre and the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in both Education and Lighting. Perkins has designed lighting for Broadway and at such regional theatres as American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Congo Square, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alabama Shakespeare, New Federal Theatre, eta Creative Arts, Mark Taper, Indiana Repertory, People’s Light, Writers Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Two Rivers Theatre, and Arden Theatre. She is the recipient of such design awards as NAACP Image Award, Chicago’s Black Theatre Alliance, and was a nominee for the Henry Hewes Design Award. She has served as faculty member at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she chaired the MFA lighting design program for nearly twenty years, and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Perkins has served as board/advisory member for USITT, URTA, Congo Square, Definition Theatre, and The History Makers. In 2007 she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. She received her BFA in Drama from Howard University and her M.F.A. in Lighting Design from the University of Michigan. In 2021, the University of Michigan awarded her a Doctor of Fines Arts. www.kathyperkins.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1674445653536-JQV3JDWH3KY2C42DZCNH/Alice+Childress+working+on+Gullah+at+Third+World+Theater+in+1984.+Photo+courtesy+of+Kathy+A.+Perkins..jpg Act 2, Episode 2 - Alice Childress working on Gullah at Third World Theater in 1984. Photo courtesy of Kathy A. Perkins.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/6c8d4a0c-06bc-46ff-993b-6139a6ddac3b/Kathy+A.+Perkins Act 2, Episode 2 Kathy A. Perkins https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-3 daily 0.75 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/3029f874-2b55-441b-bddb-3a797239cf32/profile_photo_mhwash-2.jpg Act 2, Episode 3 - Mary Helen Washington Mary Helen Washington is Distinguished University Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, specializing in 20th and 21st century African American literature. Her monograph, The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s (Columbia University Press, 2014) received Honorable Mention in the William Sanders Scarborough Prize competition from The Modern Language Association. She has edited three collections of African American literature: Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers(Random House, February 1991; Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories By and About Black Women, reprinted Doubleday/Anchor, January 1990; and Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960, Doubleday/Anchor, September 1987. From 1976-1980, she was the Director of Black Studies at the University of Detroit. From 1980 to 1990, she taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. She was president of The American Studies Association from 1996-1997 and was awarded the American Studies Association’s Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement in 2015. Her current project is Afterlives: Legacies of the Black Literary Left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/84d6ef4f-4b55-4141-aa90-f1cd510a57e6/tumblr_nvv9ejH3eG1tuy8zto1_250.jpg Act 2, Episode 3 Alice Childress https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-4 daily 0.75 2023-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/3bafe4b9-ba14-4a9e-a8df-f12bc453cb91/3.+Alice+Childress+on+the+set+of+Wedding+Band+at+the+Public+Theater%2C+1972.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 Alice Childress on the set of Wedding Band at the Public Theater, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675662788167-M518LK38T7QNYUJST7LW/jhbQ61bQ.jpeg Act 2, Episode 4 - Awoye And Arminda in Charleston, photo credit: Jason Ardizzone-West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675662841574-3V5CB31KBFZOWW5GHQP6/IMG_1122.JPG Act 2, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675662788169-FHYZOU3G6HA84PWEUR7P/sAeFzQhU.jpeg Act 2, Episode 4 - Charleston, photo credit: Jason Ardizzone-West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675663119205-KDLTIDSPK5UM8JZL2GKD/IMG_4207.jpeg Act 2, Episode 4 - Charleston, photo credit: Jason Ardizzone-West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675662617054-8X15I8ERQAN66LCASBIX/5.+Brittany+Bradford+in+Wedding+Band+-+photo+credit_+Henry+Grossman.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 - Brittany Bradford in Wedding Band, photo credit: Henry Grossman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675662618327-7HQPO47EE1FVFUNKFBDC/TFANA+Wedding+Band+13+%28c%29+Henry+Grossman.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1675663027587-8B4LFL6PW9CMJVJ0OQKB/TFANA+Wedding+Band+15+%28c%29+Hollis+King.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 - Brittany Bradford and Rosalyn Coleman in Wedding, photo credit: Hollis King https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/2ab785db-2a93-4e3c-8340-81eff55e3184/Jason+Ardizzone+West.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 - Jason Ardizzone-West JASON ARDIZZONE-WEST is an Emmy award winning scenic designer & production designer whose work spans many genres including live theater, concert design, tv, film, events, and theater architecture. Jason’s work has be seen across the country in theaters from coast to coast including: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, The Old Globe, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, The Vineyard Theatre and The Public Theatre. Some of Jason’s notable projects include Jesus Christ Superstar Live (NBC), Amend: The Fight For America (Netflix), Adele - Live in New York City (Radio City Music Hall), Blue Man Group (tour), world premieres of the musicals Bliss & Grace, and arena concert tours for Florence + The Machine, Pentatonix, Lana Del Rey & Dermot Kennedy. Jason has designed events for Cornell, Princeton, Duke, (Herson Group Ltd) and The New 42nd Street. Prior to focusing on set design, Jason was an architect, working with Mitchell Kurtz Architect PC to design theater and cultural arts spaces including: Playwrights Horizons, The Chautauqua Institution’s Bratton Theater, & El Teatro Heckscher. Jason received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, a Masters of Fine Arts from New York University, Department of Design for Stage & Film, and is a member of USA 829. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/ff582d20-0f64-4f84-9143-a7851976b70f/Elizabeth+Van+Dyke.jpg Act 2, Episode 4 - Elizabeth Van Dyke Elizabeth Van Dyke is an award-winning producer, actress, and director who has directed plays all over the country and received honors for her work. Elizabeth originated the roles of Fannie Mae Dove in FLYIN’ WEST by Pearl Cleage and Mattie in NO…N, NO JEWS, & NO DOGS by the late John Henry Redwood and Annie Talbot in THE DANCE ON WIDOW’S ROW BY Samm-Art Williams. She received an AUDELCO Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Zora Neale Hurston. Elizabeth is the Co-Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Going to the River, a program that develops & presents the work of women playwrights of color. Ms. Van Dyke has received the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in Theatre at Austin Peay State University, The Board of Directors Award from AUDELCO, The President’s Award from the Black Theatre Network, A Fox Foundation Grant, and a Rockefeller Grant to study the elements of Japanese Theatre. https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-5 daily 0.75 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/5ddc2a7c-9f1d-4cbe-a7cc-fcabffa7d9f4/Nicole+A.+Watson.jpg Act 2, Episode 5 - Nicole A. Watson Jamaican by birth. New Yorker by choice. Nicole A. Watson is a freelance director and educator with an interest in new play development and plays that deal with the past. A former history teacher, Nicole started directing in 2008 and works in NYC as well as universities and theaters throughout the US. She is currently the Associate Artistic Director at the McCarter Theatre Center after holding the same position Round House Theatre for 2 1/2 years. Her directing credits include: it’s not a trip it’s a journey (world premiere), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The West End (world premiere); The Kennedy Center: A Wind in the Door (world premiere); New Dramatists; The Lark; The Fire This Time Festival; The New Black Fest; WP Theater; The 52nd Street Project;Portland Center Stage; Baltimore Center Stage; Signature Theatre; PlayMakers Repertory Company; A.C.T.; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Washington National Opera; Theater Latté Da;Playwrights’ Center; Contemporary American Theater. She is also the producer of the Adrienne Kennedy Digital Theater Festival; Member, SDC. M.A., NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; B.A., History, YaleUniversity. www.nicoleawatson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/e214e5d6-0d45-4ed2-8a9f-f919baaab999/Jade-King-Carroll_headshot.jpg Act 2, Episode 5 - Jade King Carroll Jade is the Producing Artistic Director at Chautauqua Theater Company. Specializing in new play development and directing, Carroll is a multiple-time collaborator with playwrights such as Dael Orlandersmith, Chisa Hutchinson, Dominique Morisseau, and Sarah Gancher. She has also worked with many other emerging writers at organizations including the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Institute, Huntington Theatre, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, and The Civilians. Carroll has directed new audio dramas for Audible, Marvel, Broadway Podcast Network, and GEVA Theatre Center. As the Artistic Associate at Second Stage Theatre, she worked on world premieres by Lynn Nottage, Anna Deavere Smith, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, and Douglas Carter Beane, along with running 2ST’s education department. Jade has a long history of directing the classics and a strong desire to expand our cultural canon. She has directed over 50 productions across the country at such theatres as Primary Stages, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Milwaukee Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the McCarter Theatre Center at Princeton University, INTAR, Playwright’s Realm, The Wild Project, Miami New Drama, Portland Stage, Weston Playhouse, Portland Playhouse, City Theatre, Marin Theatre, Theatreworks, Two River Theatre, Playmakers Rep, People’s Light & Theatre, NYC Parks Summer Stages, Perseverance Theatre, Joe’s Pub, and Chautauqua Theater Company. At Second Stage, Jade was a Van Lier and NYC Council of the Arts directing fellow, and received a TCG New Generation grant in artistic directing. She is a former NYTW emerging artist fellow, artistic apprentice at the Women’s Project Theatre, and directing and producing apprentice at the McCarter Theatre Center at Princeton University. She was a Gates Millennium scholar and recently received a 40 under 40 award from her alma mater, SUNY New Paltz. She was also the recipient of the Paul Green Award from the National Theatre Conference and the estate of August Wilson, and the 2020 Drama League Award. She was an associate director on Broadway for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE featuring Blair Underwood and Daphne Rubin-Vega and THE GIN GAME featuring James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. As an educator, Carroll has taught and guest directed at Juilliard, Princeton, New York University, University of Iowa, Penn State, Adelphi University, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Point Park University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, West Virginia University, Bard College, Columbia University, and Chautauqua Theater Company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/1e05c927-d1a5-4956-a8b7-8468e0cec52b/Alice+Childress+working+on+Gullah+at+Third+World+Theater+in+1984.+Photo+courtesy+of+Kathy+A.+Perkins..jpg Act 2, Episode 5 Alice Childress working on Gullah at Third World Theater in 1984. Photo courtesy of Kathy A. Perkins https://www.theclassix.org/act-2-episode-6 daily 0.75 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/3f0b180d-b326-4a31-ac16-bdc96a3c6bd3/Donnetta.png Act 2, Episode 6 - Donnetta Lavinia Grays Donnetta Lavinia Grays - raised in Columbia, South Carolina - is a Brooklyn based playwright and actor whose writing credits include WHERE WE STAND (Lucille Lortel Nominee, Drama League Nominee, 3X AUDELCO Nominee, World Premiere Co-production - WP Theater and Baltimore Centerstage. O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist.), WARRIORS DON’T CRY (Theaterworks USA/Bushnell commission), LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE (World Premiere - Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Kilroys List. Colorado New Play Summit. National New Play Network Showcase. Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award Winner. O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist.), LAID TO REST (O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist.) THE REVIEW OR HOW TO EAT YOUR OPPOSITION (WP Pipeline Festival. O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist.) THE NEW NORMAL and THE COWBOY IS DYING. In 2018 Donnetta founded Gap Toothed Griot, LLC as a home for her particular brand of storytelling. Donnetta - as GTG - is currently under commission with True Love Productions, Steppenwolf, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and WP Theater. For television she has been staffed on Spectrum Original/Lionsgate’s "Manhunt", "Y: The Last Man" for FX Network/Color Force, "Joe vs. Carole" starring Kate McKinnon for NBC Universal and is currently a Co-producer on Seconds for AMC+. Website https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2ba08412b13f8feab888a3/f0e0c628-b36c-4794-930d-e3ef48061f45/SoyicaDiggsColbert.jpg Act 2, Episode 6 - Soyica Diggs Colbert Colbert’s most recent book, Radical Vision, a “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism—one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021 is also described as "A devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist’s mind," according to Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book Review. In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the theater operated as a rehearsal room for her political and intellectual work. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Colbert has also lectured nationally and internationally at universities, high schools, and middle schools as well as for civic and arts organizations. Colbert’s writing has been featured in the The New York Times, Washington Post, Public Books, Metrograph and American Theatre. She has been interviewed on NPR and commented for the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post. She is an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. In addition to Radical Vision, Colbert is the author of Bodies: Theory for Theatre Studies, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and The African American Theatrical Body. Colbert co-edited Race and Performance After Repetition and The Psychic Hold of Slavery. Most recently, she served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land. 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