August 19-20, 2009 Dirty Little Black Girls
Directed by Michael Goldfried
Featuring: Ngozi Anyanwu*, Gail Merzer Behrens*, Jennifer Fouche,
Loren Hankin, and LaTonia Phipps* *Appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association
StoryCorps Listening Salon @ 7PM
Performance @ 730PM
Talk back hosts!
8/19: Elmo Terry-Morgan
Artistic Director, Rites and Reason Theater, Brown University
Fire! New Play Play Festival 2009
Produced by Freedom Train Productions
138 S. Oxford Street [directions]
BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Uncover the darkest desires of the purest of hearts. Meet the women who mourn and clean around the skeletons in the closet. Dirty Little Black Girls explores race, sex, class, and homophobia by looking at the lives of three domestic workers of color.
Ione is a resident playwright at Freedom Train Productions. Aurin Squire, Director of New Play Development, and guest artists began facilitating intensive theatre workshops in March. Offstage Forums 2009, critical discussions inspired by their current work in development, preceded the festival. In August Artistic & Managing Director Andre Lancaster released a festival statement around the state of artist economies.
Ione on Her Family's Linguistic Roots, Class, and Economic Dignity
This clip features Resident Playwright Patricia Ione Lloyd and Director/Writer Renita Martin. It was produced by Freedom Train Productions, with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national initiative to record and collect stories of everyday people: www.storycorps.org.
Come early and hear the full interview during the StoryCorps Listening Salon!
About the Playwright
Patricia Ione Lloyd studied theatre at DePaul University Conservatory (formerly the Goodman School of Drama). To date, all of her full length plays have won awards. She received New Professional Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Award for her play, Black Tale and Downtown Urban Theatre’s Best Play Award for her play, This Train is Bound for Glory. She volunteers with Rhythm Visions Production Company, a non profit arts organization that works in communities of color. She is also a member of the College Board’s National Task Force on Arts in Education.
