Filed under: Anne Hamilton, Season One, Yvette Heyliger | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, League of Professional Theatre Women, Los Angeles Theatre, LPTW, New work, NYC Theatre, Season One, TheatreNow! Artists, Twinbiz, Women Theatre Artists, Yvette Heyliger
Congratulations to Season One Guest Yvette Heyliger, who continues to perform her one woman show BRIDGE TO BARAKA. Catch her in NY or LA. Yvette completed an MFA in Playwrighting from Queens College a couple of years ago, and has returned to the stage as well as continuing as an active producer.
1 More Show in NY for Black History Month
1 Show in LA for Women’s History Month
Playwright/actor Yvette Heyliger is pleased to announce that during Back History Month she will be performing 30 minutes of her solo show, Bridge to Baraka, directed by Mario Giacalone in John Chatterton’s Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival. The remaining show is on Sunday, February 24th @ 4:15pm, Roy Arias Theatre, 300 West 43rd Street # 402 (at 8th Avenue). Tickets are $13.00. Click here to purchase your tickets today! A Talk back with the playwright following the show can be arranged upon request
Emboldened by the 1960′s Black Arts Movement, Yvette X stakes her claim as a female dramatist coming of age during the ongoing fight for parity in the American Theatre. Bridge to Baraka is Yvette’s first one-woman show and marks her return to performing since appearing on the NBC hit, Cosby Show. Martin Denton, nytheatre.com critic, said, “Heyliger has clearly carved out a successful life for herself since then as actor and then playwright/activist (she’s a notable campaigner for parity for women playwrights on the American stage).”
During Women’s History Month, Yvette is pleased to announce that she will be heading to the West Coast to perform Bridge to Baraka in the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival. The show will be at the Renberg Theater on Friday, March 22nd @ 8pm. For tickets and information visit http://www.lawtf.org.
Photo by Miriam Berkley
Filed under: Season One, Yvette Heyliger | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Audelco Awards (NYC), hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, League of Professional Theatre Women, New work, NYC Theatre, Season One, TheatreNow! Artists, Twinbiz, Women Theatre Artists, Yvette Heyliger
RE-AIRING SATURDAY @ 8:30PM! AUDELCO winner, playwright/producer, Obama Fellow YVETTE HEYLIGER on INSIDE NEW YORK. Three ways to tune in! Time Warner Cable, channel 56; http://www.mnn.org, channel 2; or RNC channel 83.
Yvette talks with host Joan Allen about her career in theater as an actress (Cosby Show), producing artist (Twinbiz) and playwright and the plight of women in theater today! She recently produced, “A Seat at the Table,” a standing room only reading of 10 minute plays by women of color! Yvette also discusses the role of activism and her decision to become a volunteer in Obama’s re-election campaign. Don’t miss it!
Filed under: Anne Hamilton, Margo Jefferson, Season Three, TheatreNow! Artists | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Columbia University School of the Arts, Cultural Critic, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, Margo Jefferson, NYC Theatre, Pulitzer Prize Winner, The New York Times, Theatre Critic, TheatreNow! Artists
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today. Anne Hamilton is the producer and host. You may listen to the podcasts and read the transcripts at http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Interview with Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic
(Season 3, Episode 3, Recorded June 26, 2012)
Dowload the podcast here:
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Podcast with Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic who wrote about books, theatre, and the arts for The New York Times for 13 years. Her writing has also appeared in Bookforum, Salon, The Nation, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue, and Newsweek, among other publications. Her book On Michael Jackson was published by Pantheon in 2005 and Vintage in 2006. And the essay she wrote on Michelle Obama, “Movin’ On Up”, was published in Best African American Essays: 2010. She also wrote and performed SIXTY MINUTES IN NEGROLAND at The Cherry Lane Theater and The Culture Project.
Download the transcript here:
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Margo Jefferson
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Filed under: Fractured Atlas, Margo Jefferson, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Cultural Critic, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize Winner, The New York Times, Theatre Critic, www.hamiltonlit.com
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today. Anne Hamilton is the producer and host. You may listen to the podcasts and read the transcripts at http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Interview with Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic
(Season 3, Episode 3, Recorded June 26, 2012)
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Margo Jefferson
Welcome to Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! This is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today. I’m your host, Anne Hamilton. Today, our guest is Margo Jefferson. Miss Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic who wrote about books, theatre, and the arts for The New York Times for 13 years. Her writing has also appeared in Bookforum, Salon, The Nation, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue, and Newsweek, among other publications. Her book On Michael Jackson was published by Pantheon in 2005 and Vintage in 2006. And the essay she wrote on Michelle Obama, “Movin’ On Up”, was published in Best African American Essays: 2010. She also wrote and performed SIXTY MINUTES IN NEGROLAND at The Cherry Lane Theater and The Culture Project.
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Filed under: Season One, TheatreNow! Artists, Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow | Tags: Actor, African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, New work, NYC Theatre, Playwright, TheatreNow! Artists, Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow
Filed under: Season One, Yvette Heyliger | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, New work, NYC, Playwright, TheatreNow! Artists, Twinbiz, Yvette Heyliger
Congratulations to Season One guest Yvette Heyliger, who will have a reading of her new play in NYC.
YVETTE X: BRIDGE TO BARAKA
Monday, December 19th, 7-10pm
Frank Silvera Writer’s Workshop
Filed under: Kamilah Forbes, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Broadway, Director, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, Kamilah Forbes, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists
Congratulations to Kamilah Forbes, who served as the first guest of Season Two on TheatreNow! She is serving as Assistant Director of the Broadway production of THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall, starring Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson. Brava!
Filed under: Season One, Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow | Tags: African-American Theatre, Producer, Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow
| Here is a message from Yvette and Yvonne, partners at Twinbiz, and the subjects of TheatreNow! Season One, Episode Seven, describing their experience receiving a national award for their producing work. These groundbreaking and multitalented artists have been recognized for their innovation.
From Yvette and Yvonne:On August 1, 2011, with 25+ productions under our belt, Yvette and I received the first ever National Black Theatre Festival ‘Emerging Producer’ Awardin its 22 year history. It was amazing being in the company of, and honored alongside, the best of the best African American producers, performers, designers, playwrights, directors, philanthropists, humanitarians, living legends and stars of stage and screen. For our colleagues, friends, family and patrons unable to attend, we’d like to share our acceptance speeches and express our love and gratitude to YOU for all your support over the years. Yvonne & Yvette |
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Yvonne’s Acceptance Speech
 Thank you, Mrs. Hamlin, co-directors, the board, staff, volunteers and supporters of the National Black Theatre Festval.If necessity is the mother of invention, then producing is her second born.
Producing for Twinbiz first began out of necessity – Yvette and I getting our works done by any means necessary – and grew into a craft we love and are empowered by.
To artists everywhere, I say: Don’t sit around praying to God, hoping someone will produce your work. Spirit can only do for you what it can do thorough you. With God as your ‘silent’ partner, know that you are equipped and well able.
I’d especially like to thank my partner and twin sister, Yvette Heyliger, without whom Twinbiz would not exist; my husband, Larry Farrow (aka Piano Man Productions), who has supported many of our projects both financially and through his music; my mentor, Steve Duncan, a television writer/producer and creator of the hit show, Tour of Duty, who taught me the craft of screen writing, pitching and the art of the deal; publicist and producer, the late Gay Iris Parker who believed in our first major production, Homegirl, which became our first prouction here at the NBTF.
And finally to Larry Leon Hamlin, who over the years, would pick up the phone to call me in LA just to say hi, chat about the industry, or check in with how Twinbiz was doing. Life is spirit. Spirit is eternal. Thank you, Mr. Hamlin.
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Yvette’s Acceptance Speech
Women playwrights receive less than 20% of production opportunities in the American Theatre nationwide. Women playwrights of color receive even less than half of that, somewhere around 7% and as low as 1%.So what to do? The answer to that question is what makes the Emerging Producer Award so important.In 2001 Yvonne and I were the new kids on the block. Larry Leon gave a woman playwright, yours truly, and two women producers a shot on his national stage alongside well-established theatre companies, not once but four times!Thank you to Larry Leon for making this day possible; to Lawrence Evans who introduced Twinbiz to the festival; to Sylvia, Mable and Gerry for ensuring this great legacy continues for future generations of producers and theatre artists. Thank you to Voza Rivers and Woodie King, Jr. who have provided Twinbiz with advice on producing over the years; to my sister and partner Yvonne, her husband Larry, and my husband Donald.And finally, thank you to fellow honoree, Samm-Art Williams who encouraged me to write my first play and started me on this journey.
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About the NBTF’s Emerging Producer Award
The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF), founded by the late Larry Leon Hamlin, has been held biennially since 1989. The event attracts thousands of national and international patrons, theatre professionals and scholars to Winston-Salem. Approximately 35 companies are selected to perform during the week for a total of over 100 performances.
The NBTF Emerging Producer Award was created to celebrate the achievements of rising theatrical producers, to encourage their continued growth in the industry, and to bring about the awareness of the need to both reach back to acknowledge those independent producers who have been in the trenches presenting work “by any means necessary,” as well as to inspire and raise-up new producers of color. This award ensures the health, longevity and future of Black Theatre, work for its theatre artists, and the continued inclusion of black plays in the canon of American Theatre. For more information visit www.nbtf.org.
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Filed under: Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow | Tags: African-American Theatre, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, Los Angeles Theatre, National Black Theatre Festival, NYC Theatre, TheatreNow! Artists, Twinbiz, Yvette Heyliger
Congratulations, TheatreNow! guests Yvette Heyliger and Yvonne Farrow.
As Twinbiz™ partners (twins in the business), they have been selected to receive the inaugural National Black Theatre Festival Emerging Producer Award. The festival, which showcases outstanding Black Theatre from around the country, will be held August 1 – 6, 2011 in Winston-Salem, NC. The twins will be presented with this honor at the Opening Night Gala Awards Banquet on August 1st.
The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF), founded by the late Larry Leon Hamlin, has been held biennially since 1989. The event attracts thousands of national and international patrons, theatre professionals and scholars to Winston-Salem. Approximately 35 companies are selected to perform during the week for a total of over 100 performances. For more information and to buy tickets visit http://www.nbtf.org.
The NBTF Emerging Producer Award was created to celebrate the achievements of rising theatrical producers, to encourage their continued growth in the industry, and to bring about the awareness of the need to both reach back to acknowledge those independent producers who have been in the trenches presenting work “by any means necessary,” as well as to inspire and raise-up new producers of color. This award ensures the health, longevity and future of Black Theatre, work for its theatre artists, and the continued inclusion of black plays in the canon of American Theatre.
The twins have been “producing coast to coast” for over twenty years. The TheatreNow! interview revealed the creative process of WWDJ?, written and directed by Yvette, and starring Yvonne.
For a full press release, contact Yvette at twinbiznyc@aol.com
Filed under: Kamilah Forbes, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists | Tags: African-American Theatre, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Kamilah Forbes
Kamilah Forbes is an award-winning theatre artist and the Artistic Director of the Hip Hop Theatre Festival.
Listen to her speak about her early influences, experience, and artistic process.
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Kamilah Forbes
Please also visit her websites at www.kffproductions.com and www.hhtf.org
