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X-WR-CALNAME:The Specter Onstage: Historical Memory\, Public Language\, Int
 eriority\, and Contemporary Black Theatre
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DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Erika Dickerson-Despenza\n\nTanya BarfieldPatricia I
 one LloydNikole Salter \n\nErika Dickerson-Despenza: Erika Dickerson-Despe
 nza is a Black feminist poet-playwright\, cultural worker\, and organizer 
 from Chicago. Recipient of the Princess Grace Award\, she has held numerou
 s residencies and fellowships. Her acclaimed works include cullud wattah (
 Public Theater\, 2020) and plays from her Katrina Cycle\, which confront s
 tate violence and Black survival.\n\n \n\nTanya Barfield: Tanya Barfield
 ’s plays have been seen off-Broadway\, regionally and around the world. 
 Her plays include Bright Half Life (Women’s Project Theatre)\, The Call 
 (Playwrights Horizons/Primary Stages)\, Blue Door (South Coast Rep\, Playw
 rights Horizons) and Of Equal Measure(Center Theater Group). In 2016\, the
  Profile Theatre devoted their entire season to Barfield’s work. Tanya i
 s a recipient of a PEN America Playwriting Award\, a LAMDA Literary Award\
 , a Lilly Award and a Helen Merrill Award. Television writing credits incl
 ude: Mrs. America\, The Americans and Ray Donovan. She is the recipient of
  two Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for an Emmy Aw
 ard. In addition to her own writing\, Barfield is the Co-Director of the J
 uilliard Playwrights Program.\n\n \n\nPatricia Ione Lloyd: IONE LLOYD was 
 a member of the Emerging Writers Group\, a two-year playwriting residency 
 with the Public Theatre where her play PRETTY HUNGER was given a Lab produ
 ction. She was a Sundance resident playwright at their theater lab in Moro
 cco\, and a New York Theater Workshop fellow. Ione's plays PRETTY HUNGER a
 nd EVE'S SONG have been included on the Kilroy's List which honors excelle
 nce in new plays by female and trans American playwrights. She is also the
  recipient of a Tow Residency Grant at the Public Theater. Ione was a resi
 dent playwright at the University of Mumbai\, Brown University (through th
 e Africana Studies Department/Rites and Reasons Theatre) and the Internati
 onal Theatre and Literacy Project in Tanzania. Ione was most recently a Su
 pervising Producer on EVIL at CBS and was a Co-Producer on Lena Waithe's B
 ET series TWENTIES. Ione’s play\, EVE'S SONG\, premiered at The Public T
 heater in NY. Ione is currently developing a supernatural television serie
 s with Amblin Entertainment and Netflix.\n\n \n\nNikkole Salter: Nikkole S
 alter is an award-winning actor and playwright\, currently appearing as Ca
 lpurnia in Julius X at the Folger Shakespeare Library. A Helen Hayes\, OBI
 E\, and Outer Critics Circle Award recipient\, she has performed on Broadw
 ay\, Off-Broadway\, and regionally. She holds degrees from Howard (BFA) an
 d NYU (MFA).
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LOCATION:Founders Library\, MSRC Reading Room
SUMMARY:The Specter Onstage: Historical Memory\, Public Language\, Interior
 ity\, and Contemporary Black Theatre
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.howard.edu/event/the-specter-onstage-historica
 l-memory-public-language-interiority-and-contemporary-black-theatre
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