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by Award-Winning
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Author of
The High Priestess of Dark Alley
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Serving some 30,000 people annually for nearly 40 years, the AUDELCO and Obie award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre has garnered a well-earned reputation for providing outstanding professional theater productions at affordable prices. The 200-seat theater has a 40-week season and serves as a training ground for aspiring theater professionals. It has nurtured the careers of Oscar-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson; multitalented performer, choreographer and director Debbie Allen; television, film and theater producer Samm-Art Williams; musician, composer and playwright Weldon Irvine (To Be Young, Gifted And Black); actress Tichina Arnold (Fox Network's Martin and the CW's Everybody Hates Chris); award-winning scenic designer Felix Cochren and many others. The Theatre is the original New York producer of many hit shows, including Lotto; Inacent Black, which went on to Broadway and starred Melba Moore; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, which toured nationally with Kim Fields and Ted Lange and the musical, Over Forty.
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Marjorie Moon
Producer
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Welcome to The Billie Holiday Theatre's 39th Season.
I am thrilled to present three brand new, world premiere plays by the dynamic, prolific writer, Jackie Alexander, author of the BHT hit The High Priestess of Dark Alley.
Jackie's view of the African/Caribbean American community parallels that of the Theatre's mission; to quote Jackie, "As a writer, my work has tended to focus on the importance of responsibility, both personal and civic. So with this trilogy I want to share my belief that the best way for the African/Caribbean community or any community for that matter, to thrive, is for those within it to make valuing each other a priority."
We have several more exciting events planned; please revisit our site soon for more information about new productions. To receive email updates, sign-up at our mailing list below. We so appreciate your continued support.
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Marjorie A. Moon, Executive Director
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Photo credit: Alex Berg
Jackie Alexander
39th Season's Featured Playwright
Award-Winning Author of
The High Priestess of Dark Alley
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Marjorie Moon, Producer
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World Premiere!
October 15 to December 19, 2010
Written and Directed by Jackie Alexander
Featuring:
Nicoye Banks • Thaddeus Daniels • Joy Hooper
Anja Lee • Warner Miller • Neko Parham
The proposed gentrification of their community strains the bond between brothers, revealing unhealed childhood wounds. Dynamic theatre that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
TEENS AND UP
Seniors 65 and over and children 15 and younger
pay $15.00 for matinees and $12.00 for evening shows
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World Premiere!
October 15 to December 19, 2010
Written and Directed by Jackie Alexander
Featuring:
Nicoye Banks • Thaddeus Daniels • Joy Hooper
Anja Lee • Warner Miller • Neko Parham
The proposed gentrification of their community strains the bond between brothers, revealing unhealed childhood wounds. Dynamic theatre that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
TEENS AND UP
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World Premiere!
February 18 to March 27, 2011
Written and Directed by Jackie Alexander
A fearless African American civil rights activist reappears some 60 years after his supposed death to face his greatest challenge, his great-great grandson. This is a riveting, engaging and haunting story.
PRE-TEENS AND UP
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Shirley Chisholm in 1972
Photo credit: Thomas J. O'Halloran, Library of Congress
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World Premiere!
March, 2011
In association with Woodie King, Jr. and
The New Federal Theatre
"Unbought and Unbossed" Brooklyn-born congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress (1968) and the first African American woman to seek a major party nomination for President of the United States (1972).
PRE-TEENS AND UP
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mZuri Moyo as Fannie Lou Hamer
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Written and Performed by mZuri Moyo
March, 2011
The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, depicts a woman who defined the term "freedom fighter." Hamer was born into Mississippi sharecropping poverty, at the beginning of the last century. Her work during the turbulent 1960’s promoting voter registration with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and her deep commitment to grass-roots, anti-poverty projects made her a central figure in the civil rights movement.
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World Premiere!
April 28 to June 26, 2011
Written and Directed by Jackie Alexander
A once-powerful religious leader, haunted by feelings of betrayal, clings to his dignity with the support of his most devoted congregation—family.
TEENS AND UP
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The 2010-2011 season is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; NYC Council Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations, James Van Bramer, Chair; also supported by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
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