Recent Work In Development

Azure D. Osborne-Lee
Jerome A. Parker
Steve Harper

Resident playwrights write a new black queer themed play during their time with Freedom Train.

Azure D. Osborne-Lee continues her work with CROOKED PARTS, a beautiful drama and a fresh take on the colossal circumstance of a black girl coming into her own. CROOKED PARTS was first birthed in Freedom Train Productions' community workshop. Jerome A. Parker births ORIGINS OF US, a cautionary tale about the things we lose, find and pass on in the universe. And finally BLACK/OUT STORIES is Steve Harper's documentary theater piece that breaks the paradigm of black queer characters negotiating a straight world and instead brings a chorus of black queer voices, front and center.

Playwright Biographies.

The playwright residency is an anchor program. There are many companies in New York City concerned with new play development -- Freedom Train Productions is the only one that centers such work around black queer-inspired citizen theatre. Producing artists and guest artists lead the workshops, where artists mine, discover, and develop their new work. Next we organize Offstage Forums, discussions open to the public that dramaturgically connect the onstage struggle with its offstage applications. Finally we culminate the residency with a workshop performance of their work with an audience of artists, theatre industry, and the general public.

This creative work and the work of their collaborators are informed in part by their own approaches and tenets that Freedom Train Productions holds dear: re-memory, stage democratics, and canaries rule.

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