Symphony Space

African Diaspora: Origins, Identity and Transformation: African-American Playwrights Speak Out

Moderator: Lenora Champagne, Associate Professor, Purchase College; playwright and performance artist

Panelists:
Kia Corthron, productions at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, London's Royal Court Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Goodman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and elsewhere. Awards include Bellagio Residency, McKnight National Residency, AT&T On Stage Award, NEA, Kennedy Center Fund, Callaway. New Dramatists alumnus.

Eisa Davis, currently starring in the Broadway musical Passing Strange, is the author of Bulrusher, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Other plays include Warriors Don't Cry, Hip Hop Anansi, Angela's Mixtape, Paper Armor, Umkovu, Six Minutes, and The History of Light.

Daniel Alexander Jones, award-winning interdisciplinary artist; recipient of Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre, and support from the Rockefeller Foundation, NEA, TCG and Creative Capital; on the faculties of Goddard College and the University of Texas/Austin.

Part of AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA:Traditions, Revolutions and Innovations, A Festival and Symposium. Presented by Purchase College School of the Arts, in collaboration with Symphony Space, The Business Council for International Understanding, The Africa Institute of the American Jewish Committee and The New York Immigration Coalition.

Venue: Leonard Nimoy Thalia
Tickets: FREE

Showdate(s):
Saturday, May 10, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

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