February Readings 2024: BIPOC Playwrights

The 2024 Reading series: bipoc playwrights

February is project month at Live Arts! This year, we are featuring plays by BIPOC Playwrights.

Join us for staged readings of the plays! We will be reading each play on a different evening in  February 2024, followed by a talkback session focusing on the themes presented in the play.

Monsters of the American Cinema by Christian St.Croix 2/5/2024 7pm
Directed by: Jeffrey Liu+

Remy: Alejandro Pagan
Pup: Corey Bossom
Stage Directions: Blair Sanders

Headshot for Jeffrey Liu. Asian male with short black hair.Black and white headshot for Alejandro Pagan.Black and white headshot for Blair Sanders. Caucasian female with long brown hair.

 

 

 

 

Tiny Beautiful Things by Nia Vardalos 2/6/2024 7pm
Directed by: Andre Eaton Jr.*

Sugar: Dawn Davridge
Letter Writer #1: Kathleen Seconder
Letter Writer #2: Jeffrey Liu
Letter Writer #3: Michael Ward

Black and white headshot for Dawn Davridge. White female with brown hair.Black and white headshot for Kathleen Seconder. Caucasian female with brown hair.Headshot for Jeffrey Liu. Asian male with short black hair. Black and white headshot for Michael Ward. African American male with short hair.

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken & Biscuits by Douglas Lyons 2/8/2024 7pm
Directed by: Becca Parker*

Beneatta Mabry: Celeste Campbell
Reginald Mabry: Rodney Johnson*
Kenny Mabry: Andre Eaton Jr.*
Logan Leibowitz: Corey Bossom
Beverly Jenkins: LeTitia Sloan
Latrice Franklin: Tayla Porter
Simone Mabry: Tia Nickole
Brianna Jenkins: Kenisha Morgan

 

Black and white headshot for Becca Parker. Caucasian female with long hair who is wearing glasses.Black and white headshot for Celeste Campbell. Black female with short dark hair who is wearing glasses.Black and white headshot for Rodney Johnson. Black male with very short hair.Black and white headshot for Le Titia Sloan. African American female with long hair. Black and white headshot for Tayla Porter. African American female with long dark hair.Black and white headshot for Tia Nickole. African American female with curly black hair.Black and white headshot for Kenisha Morgan. African American female with dark hair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous by Pearl Cleage 2/12/2024 7pm
Directed by: BJ Barrett

Anna Campbell: Letitia Sloan
Betty Samson: Celeste Campbell
Kate Hughes: Kenisha Morgan
Precious “Pete” Watson: Tia Nickole

Black and white headshot for Le Titia Sloan. African American female with long hair.Black and white headshot for Celeste Campbell. Black female with short dark hair who is wearing glasses.Black and white headshot for Kenisha Morgan. African American female with dark hair.Black and white headshot for Tia Nickole. African American female with curly black hair.

 

 

 

 

 

The Importance of Being Earnest: Part Deux by Monserrat Mendez 2/13/2023 7pm
Directed by: Blair Sanders

Gwendolen: Haley Perez-Arche
Cecily: Katie Bates
Ms. Prism: Tracey Egan
Lady Bracknell: BJ Barrett
Jack Worthing: Jeffrey Liu
Inspector Raynier: Marta Sand
Algernon Moncreif: Loren Collins
Merriman/Chausible: Andrew Percher
Bibi LaFlam: Alejandro Pagan

Black and white headshot for Montserrat Mendez. Hispanic male with very short dark hair and a beardBlack and white headshot for Blair Sanders. Caucasian female with long brown hair. Black and white headshot for Katie Bates. White female with long brown hair.Black and white headshot for Tracey Egan. White female with long blonde hair.Headshot for Jeffrey Liu. Asian male with short black hair.

Black and white headshot for Andrew Percher. White male with short hair who is wearing glasses.Black and white headshot for Alejandro Pagan.
 

 

 

 

 

Project Leadership

Black and white headshot for Andre Eaton Jr. Black male with curly black hair.ANDRE EATON Jr.*
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Andre Eaton Jr is a graduate of Georgia State University. He received a taste of directing in the required directing classes for theatre majors where he directed scenes from Doubt, and Harlem Duet.  The majority of his experience with directing comes from acting in various show with a variety of different kinds of directors each with their own ways of working.

Black and white headshot for Becca Parker. Caucasian female with long hair who is wearing glasses.BECCA PARKER*
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Becca Parker is the Founding Artistic Director of LiveArts Theatre. Becca is a teaching artist who is active at the local, state, and national level. Becca leads the Directing, Stage Management, and Dramaturgy Intensives.She founded Live Arts as a place for all, and is excited to be working with such an awesome team to bring this project to life.

Jeffrey Liu+
Member of the 2023-24 Directing Intensive

Bio coming soon!

 
BLAIR SANDERS
guest director

Bio coming soon!

 

BJ Barrett
guest director
BJ Barrett has lived from Japan to Germany and all over the US earning a Master of Fine Arts Degree and priceless lessons from the university of Life. This diversity attracts her to the imaginative world of Theater and the challenges of creating roles divergent from her daily existence. BJ has performed in community theater since 1987 including musicals, dance performances as well as dramatic roles.