Tanya Barfield's Broadway.com article "A Meditation on 'Blackness'" says her play "Blue Room" asks "what part of the self a person carves away to get ahead."
Nicole Porter's Backstage article "In living color" assesses casting directors' eyesight when it comes to multiethnic relationships as well as interracial actors and actresses.
And Kim Voynar's Cinematical post "What makes a black film authentic" riffs on Ken Williams' excellent Guardian UK essay "Keeping it unreal."
Last but not least: Andre Lancaster, director of Andrea E. Davis' recent (and soon-to-return) off-Broadway production "A Love Like Damien's" (Blogspot; MySpace) and artistic director for Freedom Train Productions, says four slots are open for activist playwrights in need of a residency to write or hone "a one-act play that simultaneously affirms Black LGBT life and fights HIV in the Black community." Those playwrights would "meet with their peers every 3 weeks for the Workshop and Laboratory; receive a reading and talkback at the Monthly Play Reading Series; and have their work staged at FTP's In The Life Theatre Festival (Summer 2007). Residency begins this November. Playwrights receive a $700 stipend. Deadline for Submission is Friday, Oct 27th, 2006." The PDF (76 KB) is here. Cover letters, resumes and 10- to 15-page work samples may be e-mailed or sent to Freedom Train Productions, New York State Black Gay Network, 103 East 125th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10035.
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