The exhibit included the gowns of Mary “Diamond Teeth” McClain, a well-known singer, vaudeville performer, and off-broadway actress who performed in Bradenton and St.Petersburg, Florida. The Museum of Florida History ran an exhibit from 2009-2010 called “Voices of Florida Women”. Although he is currently best known for his television role of playing Ellis on “The Vampire Diaries”, he also has acted as the lead in theatre productions including And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel, produced by the Newnan Theatre Company. The boys and girls club has a partnership with the Patel Conservatory, a theatre in Tampa, FL, and offers children acting/musical theatre workshops.Ĭhildren performing in a Patel Conservatory musical theatre workshopĮuseph Messiah is an actor and producer born in Tampa, Florida on Macdill Airforce Base in 1985. There are 18 sites in the Tampa Bay Area, including sites in predominantly African American communities. The Boys and Girls Club is a nonprofit organization that establishes community centers for youth to play and learn during non-school hours. We have included University of Tampa to contrast the University of South Florida, as none of UT’s recent theatrical productions can be classified as black theatre and there are no black theatre courses. University of Tampa offers bachelors degrees in theatre and musical theatre. Stephens has been active in the Tampa Bay theatre community for 35 years, having designed lighting and scenery for over 110 productions including August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls, and Errol John’s Moon on a Rainbow Shaw. Stephens is an associate professor of design in the Theatre of School and Dance at the University of South Florida. Her original plays include Tillers and The Gilded Sixpence and she has directed productions of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls and Lynn Notage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Born in St.Petersburg, Florida, Fanni received her bachelors from USF and her Masters in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of Fine Arts. USF Theatre “For Colored Girls” production posterįanni Green is an African American playwright and theatre teacher at the University of South Florida. USF’s library also has a virtual archive on the history of minstrelsy in America. USF offers a course on Caribbean theatre. The University of South Florida’s School of Theatre and Dance has put on productions of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls in 2004 and Lynn Notage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy in 2006, both of which directed by Fanni Green. Allows community members to submit and produce full-length and short plays and monologues, as well as attend improv, acting, and singing workshops.įounders of the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival, Rory and Kahlia Lawrenceĭr.Carter G Woodson African American History MuseumĪ black history museum in St.Petersburg, Florida whose mission is to preserve, present, and interpret African American history, Named after Carter Woodson, the Father of Black History Month.In January of 2017 had an event for American Stage to celebrate their completion of August Wilson’s 10 year Century Cycle and had an exhibit in June of 2017 on the Harlem Renaissance.Īdvertisement for the Century Cycle Celebration at the museum Photo of WBTT’s production of “Broadway in Black”Īn annual 3-day theatre festival, established in 2013 by an African American couple- Rory and Kahlila Lawrence. Recent productions include The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes, and an original play by Nate Jacobs titled Broadway in Black. The West Coast Theatre Group is a black theatre group founded by Nate Jacobs in 1999 out of Sarasota, Fl. Jose Rufino as Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet In February of 2017, Freefall theatre presented the Florida Regional Premiere of Red Velvet- a play about African American actor, Ira Aldridge Theatre company founded in 2008 in St.Petersburg, Florida. Black theatre productions include:Ģ004 – Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias with an all-black cast.Ģ017- August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and GoneĢ018 – Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the SunĪSTC’s production of August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” American Stage was the 12th theatre in the world to complete all 10 of August Wilson’s Century Cycle series.
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