Conferences & Convenings
Invited panelist
ATHE 2024 Panel: Navigating Whiteness and White Psychopathy at PWI's and HBCU's
Conference colleagues!
Fun with colleagues!
Black Theatre Network Conferences
2024 Centering Blackness:
Nurturing the Creative Spirit
37th Annual Convening
July 26-29, 2024
Winston Salem North Carolina
Brookstown Inn
Keynote speaker Harry Lenox (in back) and conference attendees
BTN Panel: Black Brilliance at PWI's and HBCU's
BTN Board Induction
BTN 2024 Attendees
Black Theatre Network Conference
“SCRIPTING THE FLIP:
Black Theatre ACT III”
Black Theatre Network
"Liberation Theatre: When Black Theatre Works"
July 26-30, 2018, Memphis TNConference presenter "Beyond Respectability Politics - the Evolution of Black Theatre at Howard University"
Black Theatre Network Conference
Invited Speaker/presenter: Archival Research Presentation at the 2018 conference of my initial research for eventual lecture series and book focused on the Howard Players.
For the delivery of the presentation of my research at the 2018 Black Theatre Network Conference I utilized my expertise in public-focused dramaturgy. Public-focused dramaturgical efforts function to contextualize and offer frameworks for interpretation, critique and analysis.
I created and executed a slide presentation that moved the audience through select time periods in the 108 year production history oftentimes sharing information that had not been previously shared publicly.
I also posed questions to the audience inviting them to critique their perspectives on the evolution of black theatre, as well as shared the ongoing questions I seek to answer as I continue to conduct my research.
The Black Theatre Network conference is an annual conference which serve as a national forum for the exchange of ideas between professionals, educators and students of Black Theatre.
Black Theatre Network Conference (BTN) 31st Anniversary Conference "A Look Back as we Move Into the Future" August 6-9, 2016, Chicago IL
Black Theatre Network Scholarly Conference (BTN) "Staged Presence: The Evolution of Black Theatre as the Voice for Protest, Social, and Creative Change" July 31 - August3, 2015 (Winston Salem NC). 4 days of scholarly presentations, networking and workshops.
2019 August WIlson Society Lecture Series
August Wilson Society Lecture Series Co-Chair
August Wilson Society "August Wilson Ground" inaugural Lecture Series
An annual lecture series whose mission is to advance August Wilson Studies by introducing cutting edge and creative new critical treatments of his American Century Cycle plays and encouraging ongoing informed discussions on the enduring relevance of his life and his work. Guest speakers from multiple disciplines “ground” their talks in one of the multiple disciplines featured in Wilson’s work—art, activism, religion, music, African retentions, economics, gender dynamics.
Guest speaker: University of Maryland’s American Studies Chair and foodways scholar Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson speaking on—Cornbread, Biscuits, and Coca-Cola: Foods and Food Practices in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle Plays
Additional Speakers - Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick; Constanza Romero Wilson, August Wilson’s wife and the executor of his estate; Janis Burley Wilson, President and CEO of Pittsburgh’s August Wilson African American Cultural Center; and Paul Ellis, Executive Director and Legal Counsel for the August Wilson House Restoration Project.
National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) 8/4 - 9/2015 (Winston Salem NC). 5 days of theatre workshops, networking and play attendance.
2011 Black Playwrights Convening, Arena Stage
