The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival is open to parents and caregivers that identify as Black.
Get to know Donaldo Prescod, playwright of The 1s and 2s, our April 2013 Feature.
Something new happened at Blackboard this past Fall… and that something new was Jerome Parker. I searched in my emails and found that Jerome contacted Blackboard in 2010 after an ad I had placed for a Production Assistant. He re-“emerged” into our Blackboard world in September 2012 through Nathan Yungerberg, a wonderful playwright that has featured …
Interview with Playwright, Danielle Eliska Lyle
GENERATION T follows two Marines – one on psych leave and the other AWOL – and their drug-addled friends as they try to cope with life in post-9/11 America – the only America they’ve known.
BLACKBOARD: Tell us a little but about yourself and why you write….
NATHAN: I moved to NYC from Minneapolis 7 years ago. I have been a professional photographer for 21 years. Four years ago…
BLACKBOARD: Tell us a little but about yourself and why you write….JAMES: I was born in California, but grew up in Las Vegas, NV. I’ve lived a few places Wilberforce, Ohio where I went to school at Central State University and Washington, D.C. – I studied film at Howard University in a MFA Program, and I lived in LA before moving here to New York.
Reflections on working on David Mamet’s Race by Blackboard devotee and actress, Toccarra Cash When our illustrious Blackboard founder, Garlia, asked me to write a post on Blackboard’s blog about my very recent experience performing the role of Susan in David Mamet’s intense legal drama, Race at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, I jumped …
Name, Theatre Background… My name is Ano Okera. I am a Playwright and Performance Artist who grew up as child performer in Jamaica recording music, acting, dancing and doing theater since I was 8 years old. After moving to New York I landed the role of ‘Angel’ in the hit Broadway Show RENT, as well as roles in Dreamgirls, …
Jill Knox loves claiming that she was born in New York City because growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut wasn’t very exciting. Luckily for her, being exposed to the arts was not a choice but a requirement in the house she grew up in. Having a mother who sits on the board of the …