PERFORMANCE HISTORY
"[ProgressTheatre] switches between emotions -- revealing how one can walk and fall at the same time." -New WORLD Theater
'MEMBUH: [CONFESSIONS OF] THE ONLY GENERATION premiered at PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 in NYC, April 5-20; PROGRESS ROUNDTABLE @ The Y Theater of The Educational Alliance, July 2004 (NY, NY); LIVING WORD FESTIVAL @ The ODC Theater, October 2004 (San Francisco, CA). 14TH STREET PLAYHOUSE June/July 2006 (Atlanta, GA); THEATRE PROJECT, February 2007 (Baltimore, MD); ABRONS ARTS CENTER, February 2007 (NY, NY); SOUTH DALLAS CULTURAL CENTER, June 2007 (Dallas, TX); SPELMAN COLLEGE, August 2007 (Atlanta, GA); Murphy Fine Arts Center, November 2007 (Baltimore, MD)
PEACHES was first developed at The Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, befor being co-commission byt he National Performance Network Creation Fund Grant, NEW WORLD THEATRE, Amherst, MA (2001-2003) and PERFORMANCE SPACE 122, New York, NY (2001-2002). Co-produced by NEW WORLD THEATRE with the KO FESTIVAL of Performance at Amherst, July 27-29, 2001; performed at the NATIONAL BLACK THEATER FESTIVAL in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, August 2001; in PS122’s Fall 2001 Season; feature performance at “Intersection: Future Aesthetics” at NEW WORLD THEATRE, April 2002; “A-NIGHT-IN-PROGRESS” @ Walker Stage (NYC) November 2002; National PERFORMANCE NETWORK Annual Meeting @ the Kennedy Center in DC, December 2002; 651 ARTS Season, March 2003; NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Alternate Routes: Sacred Circle, February 2004; YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Nexthetics: An Exploration of Theater, Hip Hop, Spoken Word and Dance, May 2004 (San Francisco, CA); AARON DAVIS HALL International Series, March 2005 (NYC); THE HEINEN THEATRE, July 2005 (Houston, TX); 14TH STREET PLAYHOUSE, July 2005 (Atlanta, GA); THEATRE PROJECT, October 2005 (Baltimore, MD), Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, November 2005 (Tampa, FL); 14th Street Playhouse, January 2006 (Atlanta, GA); Apollo Theater, April 2006 (Harlem, NY); Theatre Project, May 2006 (Baltimore, MD); The Heinen Theatre, October 2006 (Houston, TX), University of Georgia (Athens, GA) February 2007; Theatre Project, February 2007 (Baltimore, MD), ABRONS ARTS CENTER, February 2007 (NY, NY); MECA: Multicultural Education & Counseling through Arts, February 2008 (Houston, TX); The Morton Theatre, February 2008 (Athens, GA); World Music Theatre Festival, March 2008 (Netherlands): including Podium Mozaiek (Amsterdam), Theatre Zuidplein (Rotterdam), RASA WereldCultureelCentrum (Utrecht), Theater Zwembad de Regentes (The Hague); Leidse Schouwburg (Leiden)
Radio, Colleges & Community Performance Venues: Baruch College; Columbia University; New York University; Brooklyn College; Sister’s Place (Brooklyn); Amherst College; Sister’s Uptown Bookstore (Harlem); African Poetry Theatre (Queens, NY); Paul Robeson High School (Brooklyn, NY), & Violet Cafe (NY, NY); WBAI-99.5 FM (NY, NY); KPFA 94.1 FM Hard Knock Radio (San Francisco, CA); Youth Speaks (San Francisco); San Francisco State University; East Side Arts Alliance (Oakland, CA); Galilleo High School (San Francisco); KTSU 90.9 (Houston, TX); WRFG 89.3 (Atlanta, GA); WMNF 88.5 (Tampa, FL); Spelman College (Atlanta, GA); Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA); Jazzman's Cafe (Atlanta, GA); Javology (Atlanta, GA); XM Satellite Radio (National); WAMU 88.5 (Baltimore, MD); KTSU 90.9 (Houston, TX); Apache Café (Atlanta, GA); Café 290 (Atlanta, GA); Auburn Avenue Research Library (Atlanta, GA); 7 Stages (Atlanta, GA); Alternate Roots (Atlanta, GA), Project South (Atlanta, GA), University of Houston, Project Row Houses (Houston, TX), International Symposium of Arts & Society (NY, NY), Richland College (Dallas, TX), Neo-Soul Cafe @ SPIKE (Dallas, TX), South Dallas Cultural Center, KSOC 94.5 FM "K-Soul" & KBFB 97.9 FM "The Beat" (Dallas, TX); Riyaadah Neo-Soul Concert & Fashion Show College, (Atlanta, GA), Spelman College, (Atlanta, GA); IMAN: Inner-City Muslim Action Network, (Chicago, IL)