Neil Harkins is our next guest on The Yay. Neil is a budding playwright that will be contributing to the Baldwin Project and, like me, attended the Berkeley Rep playwrighting class, taught by Gary Graves. Neil also been working with the Playwright’s Center for San Francisco and their BIPOC Play Showcase. To find out more about the BIPOC Showcase and to submit your play, click here: http://www.playwrightscentersf.org/#bipocshowcase
This podcast is very heavy on the upcoming Baldwin Centennial Project, which all three of us are working on. We talk about how Baldwin is still a crucial voice for today’s generation – his struggles with blackness, his identity as a gay man, and his fight to be individual in his own way and still shine a light to all diversity, so we can all be equal. This project was birthed from the Richard Wright Centennial Project, which inspired Neil to get into theatre and playwrighting, and he talks of his experience with that project and what’s he’s doing now.
SHOWS:
Pulp Scripture – Episode 7: The Shameful Origin of Moab and Ammon
Published on Feb 2
Pulp Scripture was created by William Bivins (Episode 206)
https://www.apocryphamedia.com
The Mountaintop (Pear Theatre)
Feb 3 – 20
Michael Wayne Rice (Episode 136) and Damaris Divito (Episode 190) is in the show
https://www.thepear.org/season-20
My H8 Letter to the GR8 American Theatre (Shotgun Players)
Feb 17-20
https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=30th-csrs&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=
Golda Sargento aka Rebel Maria (Episode 220) is in the show
Carmen (Opera San Jose)
Feb 12 – 27
Brennah Kemmerly (Episode 203) is in the show
https://www.operasj.org/carmen/
Escape from the Asylum (Central Works)
March 17 – April 17
Alan Coyne (Episode 29) and Jan Zvaifler (Episode 170) are in the show
Gary Graves (Episode 24) is directing the show
http://centralworks.org/escape-from-the-asylum/
DOT (New Conservatory Theatre Center)
March 4 – April 3
Kim Donovan (Episode 80) is in the show
ShawnJ West (Episodes 146 and 172) is directing the show
https://www.nctcsf.org/21-22-Season/Dot
Dr. Stephanie Johnson (Episode 177) is teaching a class on lighting, hosted by the Oakland Theatre Project. The Magic Of Lighting – March 7-28 in person
https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/adult-classes
Barry Graves (Episode 104) has a new podcast out!
The Black Man’s Heart
On Spotify and all your podcast apps
Our wonderful consulting producer Mallory Somera (Episode 151) is producing a podcast for KCBS Radio called Connect The Dots, a weekly news podcast, hosted by WCBS Newsradio 880’s Lynda Lopez. Check out “Connect The Dots” on any podcast app.
Also, Bindlestuff Studios has a podcast called the Fobcast, exploring Filipino American immigrant stories. Check out The Fobcast in any podcast app.
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