…sometimes what one says things they do not think and they hope that people are not offended but then sometimes one has to say that they are just saying what is brought up … for instance with Amina’s play… watching these rehearsals, I think about how awkward it would feel – or be watching Obama …
I am really looking forward to Monday’s Blackboard… I’ve been around for the rehearsals of this fully staged reading and I feel as if Monday’s audience is definitely in for a wonderful presentation! A white family has a black slave. Not during the civil war… Now… and we have a black president… should that …
Amina Henry is a first generation American of Jamaican descent. She has a BA in English/Film Studies from Yale University and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. She is a writer/actress who currently works as a Resident Teaching Artist for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. She is in the process of applying to …