Our April Feature reading will close out our current run of Semi-Finalist readings that has been going on since December 2025, featuring semi-finalists from the Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival and the Obsidian Theatre Festival.
On Monday, April 20th at 7:30pm on Zoom, we will feature BETWEEN TONGUES by Carl Hendrick Louis. The virtual “house” will open at 7pm ET
ABOUT THE PLAY: Amid love, loss, and generational pain, a Haitian-American family wrestles with how much of the past to carry into their child’s future.
Directed by Doron JéPaul, this reading features a star-studded cast:
AMBER GRAY as Aileen
MARGARET ODETTE as Cassandra
PASCALE ARMAND as FABIOLA
DONALD PAUL as VLADIMIR
MARINDA ANDERSON as AILEEN
While our readings are free, we do ask for a $10 Suggested Donation if you are able, so that we can support our artists in the future and continue to support Black Playwrights in this way.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Carl Hendrick Louis is a New York Based artist.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Doron JéPaul is a Colorado-raised, NYC-based Creative Architect: using acting, writing, producing, and directing to tell innovative and thought-provoking stories that shift the entertainment climate. He received his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program and is the founder of Thermostat Media. His producing credits include Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts (SXSW), Close Talkers, and Self//Tape (with Cinereach). His play A Letter Too debuted at National Black Theatre. As an actor, Doron has appeared on Broadway in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Piano Lesson, and Our Town. Doron uses his wide variety of artistic talents as a vehicle for expanding the joy, curiosity and imagination of art in every story.
ABOUT BMPFest
In 2020, Blackboard Plays and Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) partnered to uplift the experiences of Black Parenthood. The Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival was established to tell stories of Black families, by Black parents and caregivers.
Dismantling systemic racism through art requires the creation of platforms and opportunities to tell stories that illuminate the reality, obstacles, pain, joy, celebration, humor, revelation, and even mundane aspects of the human experience lived by BIPOC individuals.
BMPFest is our response to create storytelling representation through art.
