Holla at yo gurl on the road/and please tell your friends!
I am a member of New Dramatists/Class of 2016!!!
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I am the 2010 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty Member for The Theatre School at DePaul University (TTS).
I am the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic Institute (2011 – 2012), produced by The Theatre School at DePaul and Links Hall. Details HERE.
In addition to teaching at TTS DePaul, Winter quarter, 2012, I had the honor of teaching a Solo Performance Course at the University of Chicago, Theatre and Performance Studies. More HERE.
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My current work in progress, River See, has received funding from the MAP Fund and the National Performance Network Creation Fund. Workshop performances, premiere and tour TBA. More HERE!
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July 26 – July 29, 2012:
I’m a proud to say that I will be returning to work with NAKED STAGES at Pillsbury House in MLPS. Naked Stages is a program for emerging artists under the direction of Laurie Carlos. More about Naked Stages HERE.
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Thanks to Kimberly Dark/I’ll be teaching at Cal State’s Summer Arts Program
(Monterey Bay) July 2012. You don’t have to be a student to apply. More HERE.
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I will be presenting at::Bodies in Space:: Conference
May 11th and 12th of 2012, the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the Center for Literature and the Environment at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Keynote address will be given by: Dr. Jennifer Brody. HERE.
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I’ll be on program with a posse of Loved Ones including Carl Hancock Rux and Erik Ehn at Soul Central Love Melt: A benefit for Erik Ehn’s Soulographie Performance Cycle
Sunday, April 29 at 7:00PM
at (LaMama) La Galleria
6 East 1st Street
New York, NY 10003
(btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)
Details HERE.
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Dr. Vershawn Ashanti Young is teaching both the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues. He is bringing me to University of Kentucky to do a presentation on 4/16/12. Details HERE.
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April 13,2012 3PM
I’m reading on program with M. Shelly Conner at UIC
In the 2012 One-on-One Reading Series
English Department seminar room (UH2028)
More HERE.
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I will be participating in the 2012 Black Lavender Experience at Brown University (4/4-4/8). Thank you Dr. Elmo Terry. I love this annual gathering/can’t wait! More HERE.
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I’ll be a Keynote speaker for the
Feminist Action Project Conference
8PM March 31, 2012
Utopia Theatre, School of Social Work,
University of Texas Austin
1925 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, TX, 78712
More HERE.
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I’m proud to say that I’m facilitating a workshop for Roots and River Productions on 3/23/12 in NYC.
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I’m reading:
March 20, 2012 7PM
Berman Museum 016
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Presented by S.U.N. & Multicultural Services
Details HERE.
(Thanks Patricia Schroeder!)
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I am proud to say that I am one of the playwrights participating in New Dramatists Nocturnal Commissions fundraiser
3/19/12 @ 6:30PM
New Dramatists, New York
Details HERE.
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Theatre Offensive here I come!! Myself and Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewife’s Alec Mapa be receiving the “Out On The Edge Award” at The Theater Offensive’s ClimACTS!2012 – Guilty Pleasures March 16, 2012 6:30PM.
More HERE.
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I will Conduct a short excerpt of my work-in-progress, “River See,” featuring Omi Osun Joni L. Jones at P.OW. W.O.W. Inc. @ Jeffrey Pub in Chicago on 3/13/12 7041 S Jeffery Blvd. Chicago, IL. Door Opens 7:30 pm. Show Starts 8:30 pm $5. More HERE.
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I am participating in One World, curated by Erik Ehn at Brown University.
March 1-4, 2012. Details HERE.
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Duriel Harris is bringing me in to read at a Salon at:
The McLean County Arts Center
601 N. East St., Bloomington, IL
2/18/12 Noon-5PM. LOTS of great artists on program!!
More HERE.
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I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be on MPAACT’s Winter Solo Jams Panel
February 8, 2012 @ 8PM. More HERE.
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Myself, Ramon Rivera-Servera from Northwestern, Mark Jeffery from SAIC are serving as responders for, Queer Community: A Performance Process
January 24th, at 6PM (FREE) in the Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson in the performance space (LL102). The event is Curated by Kimberlee Perez and Dustin Goltz, and is sponsored by The College of Communication, The LGBTQ Studies Minor, and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
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1/20/12 7PM
Rumble Arts Center 3413 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL http://rumblearts.com
I have the Blessing of being in conversation with Baraka de Soleil and Yessica Gamboa Guerrero at “Night of Insight: Re-Frame: Communing”.
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I’ll be on Francesca Royster’s Queer Performace: Space, Bodies, and Movement(s) panel at MLA Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 620, WSCC . More HERE.
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I am proudly serving as Resource Playwright for this year’s December New Dramatists Play Time Lab!!
The Playwrights are: Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley, Rob Handel, Dan LeFranc and Chiori Miyagawa. WOOHOO!! More at: HERE.
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11/18/11 I’ll be working with performers in Heidi Coleman’s class. Dr. Coleman is Director of University Theater, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Theater and Performance Studies @ University of Chicago.
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Windy City Queer will hit the stands November 2011.
I’ll be reading at the following book parties:
Women & Children First Bookstore, Chicago
Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:00 p.m
P.O.W. W.O.W., Inc.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:00 p.m.,
Jeffrey Pub,
7041 S. Jeffrey Blvd., Chicago
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:00 p.m.
Windy City Queer AWP Reading & Reception
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash
Windy City Queer
LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast
Edited by Kathie Bergquist
The University of Wisconsin Press
LGBTQ writing from Chicago featuring poetry, memoir, fiction, and essays by Edmund White, Achy Obejas, Sharon Bridgforth, Brian Bouldrey, E. Patrick Johnson, Carol Anshaw, David Trinidad, Mark Zubro, Kay Barrett, Coya Paz, C. C. Carter and many others!
More HERE.
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I am one of the presenters at Penn State’s, “Celebrating African American Literature: Race, Sexual Identity, and African American Literature.” Setp. 30 – Oct. 1, 2011. See the full list of presenters and more info HERE.
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I will be a Keynote Speaker at Butch Voices in Oakland, August 18 – 21, 2011.
More HERE.
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I will be at ATHE in Chicago participating on:
Queer Performance, Transnationalism, and Re-Memory in the Flesh with Francesca Royster, Laila Farah, Misty DeBerry, and Kimberlee Perez.
August 13, 2011 11:30 am – 1:00 pm.
And
The Jazz Aesthetic: The Next Moment for Black Theatre for panel with Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
August 12, 2011 from 5:15pm – 6:45pm.
I’ll be giving a keynote speaker 5:15PM 8/10/11
LGBTQ ATHE pre-conference gathering: A Queerer Time, A Queerer Place: Memory, Archives, Testimony, History. Details HERE.
More about ATHE HERE.
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I will be facilitating creative process with Naked Stages at Pillsbury House in MLPS July 28-Aug 2, 2011. Naked Stages is a development program for emerging artists under the direction of Laurie Carlos. More www.pillsburyhousetheatre.org/PillsburyHouseTheatre/NakedStages/tabid/2253/Default.aspx HERE.
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I will be presenting June 20-24 Evanston IL
Black Feminist Performance Summer Institute
Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University.
Details HERE.
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I’ll be participating in C. C. Carter’s Butch Bois Chronicles
Friday, June 3rd 6PM
Mexican Museum of Fine Art, Chicago, IL
Produced by POW-WOW and Chicago Foundation for Women Lesbian Leadership Council.
More HERE.
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I will be doing a short reading at:
dandelions in the concrete: a night of healing art and creative interventions
DePaul University, SAC pit (Schmidt Academic Center at 2320 N. Kenmore Ave)
Building Communities, Ending Violence invites you to a night for collective healing and transformation through storytelling, art, music, performances, poetry & an open mic.
Free and open to the public. Dinner will be served.
Friday, May 13th, 2011
5-7 p.m. — Enjoy art-making station! View awesome art displays by local artists! Free and fun photobooth! Sliding-scale massage! Aromatherapy! Information tables!
7-10 p. m. — Open mic and performances featuring Sharon Bridgforth, Aleya Crable, Misty DeBerry, Jessica Havens, Laila Farah, among other community members, performers, poets and artists!
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I will be doing a reading at Oberlin College
8pm at Afrikan Heritage House on Thursday May 5th.
Details sooncome.
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I’ll be on panel with K Bradford and friends at the community dialogue and screening of K’s film White Out: the Outing of Whiteness 5/2 7PM-8PM at Columbia College – Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan, 1st Floor.
Resistencia Bookstore
1801-A South First St. Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 416-8885 http://www.resistenciabooks.com
PODER (People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources) presents Poesía Mujer: an evening of cantos celebrating International Women’s Day featuring poetas/activistas de Austin. The event will feature: Sharon Bridgforth, Susana Almanza, Janie Rangel, Carole Metellus, Carmen Llanes, Courtney Morris, Leticia Fonseca, Ishrat Kundawala, Chandra Washington, Andrea Melendez, & special guest Enrique Cabrera.
