Check out these photos by Sabelo Narasimhan from the delta dandi staged reading
that Freedom Train Productions produced 8/6 & 8/7 2008…

I am extremely Grateful to the cast: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney D. Ellis, *Denise Lock, and Andre St Clair Thompson/to the Freedom Train family/to the community that supported - nurtured - and showed up for us!! I learned so much - about how to move the Work forward/about Joy and community….THANK YOU EVERYBODY!! Next up on da Train: Harrison David Rivers & Aurin Squire’s…For info go to: freedomtrainproductions.org
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

P.S. Did you see all those supastars in the audience?
P.S.S. Austin, TX was representn in da house ya’ll.

The very first public reading of my new theatre piece delta dandi
is a part of Freedom Train Productions! Fire! New Play Festival
I am soooo proud/and excited…

Wednesdays and Thursdays in August, 7pm
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
All performances are free, open to the public
+ Artists Q&As after each performance!

Fire! New Play Festival 2008 showcases new political theatre featuring Black Queer protagonists. The work collectively covers a spectrum of human struggle and culture.

Sharon Bridgforth’s delta dandi is about a Black blues/Conjure woman musician traveling with a jazz band in the 1940’s at the height of the birth of modern jazz. Harrison David Rivers’ intelligent + humorous new work explores color perception and privilege. And Aurin Squire bravely presents a personal drama of overcoming sex addiction inside a sex-phobic U.S. society and within a sex-positive queer community.

AUGUST 6-7, 2008 @ 7PM:
delta dandi*
by Sharon Bridgforth
Music heals.

Featuring: *Maisha Azadi, Courtney D. Ellis, *Denise Lock, Andre St Clair Thompson
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

AUGUST 13-14, 2008 @ 7PM:
when last we flew
by Harrison David Rivers
How Black can you be when surrounded by White people?

Director: Colette Robert
Featuring: Michael Booth, Shydel James*, Hunter Gillmore*, Karen Paulemon, E. Dale Smith, and Lucinda Johnson*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

AUGUST 20-21, 2008 @ 7PM:
Submerged from All Sides…
by Aurin Squire
Laughter + sex = fun (theatre).

Featuring: Michael Booth, Sarena Kennedy, Fatima Quander*, and Sara Towber*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

This festival is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, In (BAC).

*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work in partnership with the Center on Halsted and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: npnweb.org.

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Bridgforth will be facilitating workshops for Freedom Train Productions 1:30PM - 5PM on August 9 & 6PM - 10PM on August 19, 2008. Workshops are free. There is limited space. Beginning, emerging, and established playwrights welcome. To sign up or to receive more information contact: openworkshop AT freedomtrainproductions DOT org

Freedom Train Productions stages new political theatre that challenges audiences to see character struggle from new perspectives — Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) protagonists. For more information, please visit freedomtrainproductions.org.