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Theater District"Take a Risk": Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Playwright and EducatorCaleen Sinnette Jennings is an award-winning playwright and Professor of Theatre Emerita at American University. Theaters across the country have produced her celebrated Queens Girl trilogy, including Theatre J, Mosaic Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Clackamas Repertory Theatre, and Hangar Theatre. Her plays of all lengths have regularly been published and anthologized. She has received commissions from the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Round House, and others. A multiple Helen Hayes-nominee, Prof. Jennings was also founding member of the DC playwrights’ collective The Welders. During her 31-year tenure at AU, she served as the Director of the Theatre/Musical Theatre Pro...
2025-04-1743 min
KeyBARDCrafting Theatre of Empowerment and Transformation with Caleen Sinnette JenningsSend us a textS1. E17. "I wanted to write the roles that I wish somebody would write for me."Thembi talks with Caleen Sinnette Jennings about her journey as an actor, director, playwright, educator, and arts leader, including her memories of being introduced to Shakespeare in an international school in Nigeria, her motivation for becoming a playwright, her creative process, and why she believes she is "an everlasting learner."Caleen Sinnette Jennings has had seven plays published by Dramatic Publishing Company, and her play Classyass appears in 7 play anthologies. She has been n...
2024-08-061h 16
Brooklyn Free Speech RadioConsider It Blacklit: The Writing Team of Marian: The MusicalHost Kim Singleton discusses MARIAN, an original musical, with the play's writing team. Elkin Antoniou G, Chelsea Marie Davis, Emily Ruth Hazel, Caleen Sinnette Jennings and Victoria Theodore discuss their journey in creating the musical about the iconic opera singer Marian Anderson. The play is being directed by Tamara Tunie.
2022-12-2027 min
Consider It BlacklitA discussion with the writing team of MARIAN the musicalHost Kim Singleton discusses MARIAN, an original musical, with the play's writing team. Elkin Antoniou G, Chelsea Marie Davis, Emily Ruth Hazel, Caleen Sinnette Jennings and Victoria Theodore discuss their journey in creating the musical about the iconic opera singer Marian Anderson. The play is being directed by Tamara Tunie.Thank you for listening and consider yourself Blacklit!Connect with Consider It Blacklit on Social Media:IG @Consider_It_BlacklitThreads @Consider_It_BlacklitFacebook @ConsiderItBlacklitTik Tok @ss2kmedia
2022-12-1227 min
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare (rebroadcast)African American engagement with Shakespeare goes back a long way—maybe even farther than you'd imagine. And like so much else surrounding American race relations, African American performance of Shakespeare is inextricably linked to the experiences of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow segregation, and the battle for equal rights.
In this episode, which we originally broadcast in 2015, we explore two periods in the long history of African American engagement with Shakespeare. One story begins in the 1820s, when freedom first came to the enslaved African Americans of New York. The other encompasses the long period of change stretching from the 1950s to...
2020-08-1833 min
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare (rebroadcast)African American engagement with Shakespeare goes back a long way—maybe even farther than you'd imagine. And like so much else surrounding American race relations, African American performance of Shakespeare is inextricably linked to the experiences of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow segregation, and the battle for equal rights. In this episode, which we originally broadcast in 2015, we explore two periods in the long history of African American engagement with Shakespeare. One story begins in the 1820s, when freedom first came to the enslaved African Americans of New York. The other encompasses the long period of change stretching fr...
2020-08-1833 min
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare"Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!"
—THE TEMPEST(2.2.192-193)
In this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways—including, but not limited to, performance—that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare's words.
Rebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, narrates this expansive, interview-filled look at the intersection between African American life and Shakespeare, from stage productions to personal and academic encounters with the texts.
Kim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College.
Caleen Sinnet...
2015-02-2532 min
Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare"Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!" —THE TEMPEST(2.2.192-193) In this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways—including, but not limited to, performance—that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare's words. Rebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, narrates this expansive, interview-filled look at the intersection between African American life and Shakespeare, from stage productions to personal and academic encounters with the texts. Kim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College. Caleen Sinnet...
2015-02-2532 minShakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare"Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!"
—THE TEMPEST(2.2.192-193)
In this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways—including, but not limited to, performance—that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare's words.
Rebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, narrates this expansive, interview-filled look at the intersection between African American life and Shakespeare, from stage productions to personal and academic encounters with the texts.
Kim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College.
Caleen Sinnet...
2015-02-2532 minShakespeare UnlimitedAfrican Americans and Shakespeare"Freedom, high-day! High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day, freedom!"
—THE TEMPEST(2.2.192-193)
In this second of two podcasts on Shakespeare and the African American experience, "Freedom, Hey-Day! Hey-Day, Freedom!" examines some of the many ways—including, but not limited to, performance—that black Americans have encountered, responded to, taken ownership of, and sometimes turned away from Shakespeare's words.
Rebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, narrates this expansive, interview-filled look at the intersection between African American life and Shakespeare, from stage productions to personal and academic encounters with the texts.
Kim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College.
Caleen Sinnet...
2015-02-2532 min