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  • 1.  Scripts for girls of color

    Posted 08-23-2023 15:36

    I just started at an all-girls STEM magnet middle school.  This school is created for girls of color, and 90% of the students are Black, with the remaining 10% made up of Latinx, Asian, and white students.  The schools' curriculum is Afrocentric with a focus on Black women in the US and the diaspora.  I am looking for recommendations of ANY scripts (not musicals) that would be appropriate, particularly plays/scenes written by Black women.  I have found some materials, but most are from the 90's or earlier, and I would love to have more modern scripts on hand for in-class use as well as options for a full after-school production.



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    Danielle Akers
    Theatre Arts Teacher & Director
    Grace M. James Academy of Excellence
    KY
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  • 2.  RE: Scripts for girls of color

    Posted 08-28-2023 18:02

    TRW Plays is thrilled and deeply honored to be the publisher of Finding Voice - New Works for Young Theatre Artists of Color. We are not only incredibly excited about this project but also about our partnership with EdTA and The Cincinnati Black Theatre Artists' Collective. Finding Voice: New Works for Young Theatre Artists of Color features newly created monologues and works from four dynamic Cincinnati Ohio Black playwrights written for use exclusively by High School and Middle School aged students of color.

    The book will be available at the EdTA Theatre Education Conference (TEC) in September, and on the TRW Plays website soon after. 

    Meanwhile, if you would like to purchase a copy of the book, contact Lysna Marzani, Executive Director of TRW Plays, TRWPlays@theatricalrights.com/ 

    Finally, here are some additional new plays by female playwrights with roles for students of color: 

    ·         Good Hair by Phaedra Michelle Scott, https://trwplays.com/good-hair/ 

    ·         A Hit Dog Will Holler by Inda Craig-Calván, https://trwplays.com/a-hit-dog-will-holler/

    ·         In The Upper Room by Beaufield Berry, https://trwplays.com/in-the-upper-room/

    ·         The Talk by France Luce Benson – appears in TRW Presents Short Plays Vol 1, https://trwplays.com/the-talk/ 

    ·         G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu – appears in TRW Presents Short Plays Vol 2, https://trwplays.com/goat/



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    [Jim] [Hoare]
    [New York] [NY]
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