Freedom Train Productions
@ South Oxford Space (138 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn)

SAT JULY 24TH, 2010 @ 2:30PM
BLACK/OUT STORIES
Written and directed by Steve Harper
*a stage reading performance

When a writer conducts documentary theatre interviews with black LGBT people across the country about their most unusual coming out stories, he revisits his own personal challenges around being out, gay and black in America.

Advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets | Limited door tickets

The Artistic Team: Brie Eley (Actor), Jason Fisher (Actor), Shawn Renee Graham (Dramaturg), Amy Henault (Stage Manager), Jamal Jordan (Production Assistant and Intern), Andre Lancaster (Producing Artist), Clinton Lowe (Actor), Cherene Snow (Actor), Aurin Squire (Dramaturg and Producing Artist), Zuzanna Szadowski (Actor), and Cezar Williams (Actor).

The Citizen Theatre Playwright on his dangerous new play:

I lost my partner less than two years ago, and ended up coming out at his funeral (to the ministers and his friends who didn't know me). When I take writer meetings in Los Angeles, I come out as a matter of course - a far cry from where I was a few decades ago when I didn't want anyone to know. Now I'm coming out (again) in public with this play. BLACK/OUT STORIES is an exciting project for me because each interview bears some striking and unexpected relationship to my story. It is at once personal and universal. The specificity of the population I'm interviewing (Black LGBT folks) makes it wholly unique.
- Steve Harper

FIRE funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Brooklyn Arts Council, and S/HEROES FOR THE FUTURE.

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