Event || the Are We Free Yet? project @ AZUKAFEST
based on the book by Tina Strawn
originally commissioned by AngelPirate Productions
directed by Cheyenne Parks
March 1st at 1PM
a stage reading & part of AZUKAFEST 25
Proscenium Theatre at The Drake
Proscenium Theatre at The Drake
TICKETING INFORMATION
CAST/CREW/CREATIVES
tba as ANTIQUITY
tba as DESTINEÉ
tba reading stage directions
TS Hawkins - playwright
Tina Strawn - author of Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America (Row House Publishing)
tba - dramaturg
tba - stage manager
LISTEN TO THE MOODLIST
TUNE INTO THE INTERVIEW
Broad Street Review Podcast - "the beauty of theatre" with TS Hawkins, Gabrielle Corsaro & Tina Strawn! (elevated stag reading interview)
ABOUT THE PLAY/CHOREOPOEM
Through sound and verse, we sojourn in an afro-future encapsulated within a Sunday dinner unpacking decades and dynasties of epigenetic memories. Will the future ever progress against the past? Sauté and serenade with ANTIQUITY and DESTINEÉ as they prepare a table of life, love, and a longing to still be free.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
TS HAWKINS (they/them) is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, trauma-informed & award-winning educator, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, sweet bread peaches (formerly, Cartons of Ultrasounds), Too Late to Apologize, In Their Silence (formerly, They’ll Neglect to Tell You), #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts...”, #SuiteTea, the Are We Free Yet? project, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, The Hotel Haikus, and Becoming Saturn: a collection of rhymes, roses, and resistance. Hawkins’ works and powerful performances have been praised by the PGN - 48 Most Influential LGBTQ+ Leaders, UPenn LGBT Center as a Scholar-in-Residence, the Barrymore Awards - Victory Foundation for Excellence in Theatre Education recipient, Philadelphia Magazine - Best of Philly, BroadwayWorld, Philly Voice, NPR, WHYY, WURD Radio, Philadelphia Weekly, Chicago Tribune, The Dramatist, and dosageMagazine. Featured playwriting opportunities include the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Semifinalist & Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist for 2024-25. Ongoing interactive projects: TrailOff, Community Capital: an Afrofuturism South Philly Walking Experience, and Becoming Saturn; Hawkins’s first studio poetry album with HawkHatt Music.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
CHEYENNE PARKS (she/her) is an actor and director based in Philadelphia. Temple University (Acting Concentration’ 22) Regional: Overwinter (Azuka Theatre), The Ways of White Folks (EgoPo Classic Theater), School Girls; Or, African Mean Girls (Arden). Nominations: Best Performer In A Play and Best Direction Of A Play (BroadwayWorld Reginal Awards 2022). Cheyenne has been fortunate to have directed Dugout Daisies (The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival), sweet bread peaches by TS Hawkins and Prophets by Noah Mannix (Azuka Theatre Rising Writers Play Readings), and Reasons (Art and Vine Entertainment). She has also assistant directed Tuck Everlasting (Centre Theater), The Ways of White Folks (EgoPo Classic Theater), and 24 Hour Plays Philadelphia (InterAct Theatre Company).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TINA STRAWN (she/they) is a joy and liberation advocate, activist, author of Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America, and the owner and host of the Speaking of Racism podcast. The heart of her work is leading Legacy Trips, immersive antiracism experiences where participants visit historical locations such as Montgomery and Selma, AL, and utilize spiritual practices as tools to affect personal and collective change. Tina has three adult children, an ex-husband, an ex-wife, and an ex-country. She has been a full-time minimalist nomad since February 2020. Tina travels the globe speaking, writing, teaching, and exploring where on the planet she can feel safe and free in her/their queer, Black, woman-identifying body.
ABOUT ANTIQUITY - TBA
coming soon!
ABOUT DESTINEÉ - TBA
coming soon!
ABOUT STAGE DIRECTIONS - TBA
coming soon!
ABOUT AZUKAFEST
AZUKA’s inaugural celebration of fresh plays being written by members of our New Pages and Rising Writers playwright cohorts. More than a play reading series, AzukaFest is a 3-day opportunity to mingle, discuss, enjoy a selection of food and drinks from area restaurants, and experience new play joy!
ABOUT ANGELPIRATE PRODUCTIONS
ANGELPIRATE PRODUCTIONS seeks to serve its community by exploring stories of culture, bias, privilege, and power. We create original performance pieces and assist in sponsoring and producing the artistic work of artists of the global majority, and particularly those of artists of color living and working in the Philadelphia area.
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