Show Notes:
Show #5! Guest: Karimah. Post date: Nov. 5, 2018
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Karimah* dropped by the foyer to discuss her varied roles in theatre, from Dramaturg to Stage Manager to Playwright, and her organization, The Marginal Neighborhoods Economic Development Corporation, which aims to help artists remain in NYC.
Check out her bio and info:
Karimah, a playwright, writes plays that are socially conscious. Her plays have covered topics such as spousal abuse, imprisonment, gay rights, eminent domain, transgender in jail, parents on drugs, & inmates returning to society, among others. Her play Accept "Except" LGBT NY was presented and directed by George Faison at the Faison Firehouse Theater in 2012, and was staged at Woodie King, Jr's New Federal Theatre (2014), at the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina (2015), and at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2016).
Accept "Except" Male was first produced at the National Black Theatre, directed by Chuck Patterson (2010), the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina (2011), the NC Black Theater Repertory Theater (2012);
and at Winston-Salem at Winston Salem University (2014).
Karimah was a founding member of Black Ink at Playwrights Horizons’ African-American Writers Unit (Tim Sanford) and a founding member of the Apollo Theater’s Comedy Writers Workshop (Chuck Sutton), which evolved into Comedy Tuesdays at the Apollo, where she scripted comedy sketches. Her play And The World Laughs With You, directed by Woodie King, Jr., was presented at Crossroads Theatre Company (1994). Her plays have also been produced at theaters in Washington, DC, New Jersey, California and Tennessee.
Accept Except Male Boston and Accept Except LGBT Boston are currently in the pre-production stage for presentation in Boston in 2019. Her most recent presentations have been Gay For The Stay and Me and Michelle (WOW Theatre). She was recently a member of the Going to the River Writer’s Unit at the Lark (Elizabeth Van Dyke) and a judge for the Young Voices with New Visions annual playwriting competition in Atlanta, GA (Pamela Faith Jackson). She is a MFA graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
http://marginalneighborhoodsedc.org/
Sign Karimah's Artist Housing Petition on MoveOn.org!
*Karimah misspoke when she stated that she took the bar exam twice. She meant to say she took the LSAT twice, which is the entrance exam to law school. She took it once in New York and once in DC before deciding not to pursue a law degree.
