PAID opportunity! Seeking performers! Since 2020, Blackboard Plays has partnered with Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) to support a platform for Black Playwrights who tell stories about Black Families. The Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival is seeking performers for this upcoming BMPFest season. Join us! Submission Instructions/Deadline: Please click the this link to submit and for further instructions: https://bit.ly/bmp23casting …
Have you done it yet? Submitted to the 4th Annual Obsidian Theatre Festival (OTF)? Are you a Black Playwright interested in having your work showcased and filmed before a live audience in Detroit and later streamed? Submissions are being accepted for both plays and musicals. Please scroll down for all the full submission guidelines! OTF …
Since 2022, Blackboard has partnered with Obsidian Theatre Festival and our own Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival (#BMPFest, a partnership with PAAL, Parent Artist Advocacy League) We are pleased to announce these reading that will take place virtually on zoom from April through June 2023. Upcoming Readings: Friday, June 9, 2023 – “The …
Seeking NY-based BIPOC performers who are mothers! MEAT SUIT (tentative title) is an ensemble play, written & directed by Aya Ogawa, about the shitshow that is motherhood. The insanity, the chaos, the rage. The shit, the vomit, the blood and the piss. The loss of our bodies and our minds. Being middle-aged, having to parent children …
We’ve got a lot of readings this season and we are excited to meet actors that we have not worked with before! With Submissions being accepted for the 2nd Annual Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival, and finalists being selected for the 2nd Annual Obsidian Theatre Festival we are seeking actors for our readings. …
The 2nd Annual Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival is here! Blackboard Plays and Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) partner to uplift the experiences of Black Parenthood. The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival was established to tell stories from Black Playwrights with families. MISSION STATEMENT Since 2008, Blackboard Plays has been devoted …
JOIN US… for a reading a new TV Pilot by a Blackboard Vet! We are excited to support she and her collaborators with this fun new featured reading! REGISTER TODAY!
It’s finally here! In mid May, we captured a very special conversation amongst some of the Black Mom Leaders of our Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival Partner Theatres. We are pleased to announce that we will air that conversation on Tuesday, June 8th at 7pm on PAAL’s Facebook Page and Blackboard’s YouTube! Join …
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There are many exciting things about #BMPFest! One of them is are national partner theatres! The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival is a national digital tour of new work by Black parent playwrights. Following our Submission period last fall, our review committee selected 4 finalists and 2 semi-finalists. We hope that in the …