The Fire This Time Festival

Jan 09, 2018 - Jan 28, 2018

Running time: 1:15

PLAYING @

Kraine Theatre
85 E 4th St
New York, NY 10003

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
By Subway: 6 to Bleecker Street. Walk east on Bleecker to 3rd/Bowery, north to East 4th Street. Or F, V to 2nd Ave stop and walk north.

Show Description:

The Obie Award winning, The Fire This Time Festival was founded in 2009 by playwright Kelley Nicole Girod to provide a platform for early career playwrights of African and African American descent.

Since its founding, the Festival has produced the plays of dozens of emerging writers whose works explore a wide range of themes and perspectives. The Festival also supports actors, directors, and technical personnel to help seed the pipeline with diverse talent and amplify underrepresented voices in theater in New York and beyond.

The Festival will kick off on Monday, January 15 with an opening night reception at The Kraine Theater and continue with a special off-site event and panel discussion at Atlantic Theater Company on Wednesday, January 17, followed by full-length play readings and the 10-Minute Play Festival

The 2018 playwrights are:

The Rider by Mona Washington
Ade Ogunbade and Julia Ford Williams are very much in love and engaged. However, Ade wants a pre-nuptial agreement. Much to his surprise, Julia agrees. Her only condition? She wants to add a rider. Can love be contracted? Will their cultural differences and emotional sensitivities prevent their union? The Rider explores these questions and more.

The House by Charly Evon Simpson
The need to decide what to do with their father’s house brings siblings B and Jackie together on a cold winter afternoon.

BLACK, WHITE & BLUE by William Watkins
A black motorist. A white cop. A bystander who is far from innocent. Which truth will you believe? BLACK, WHITE & BLUE explores the deadly stereotypes that make us all slaves to fear.

Anonymous by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif
Sick of rejection and her career seeming to go nowhere, Noelle Hardisohn, a visual artist, makes a bold move. It worked! Everybody is eager to buy the art of this bold talent. But why don’t they know she’s Black? Why don’t they know her name?

Poppy by Shelley Fort
A young girl runs away from home and finds herself on an adventure through NYC. After she falls asleep on a bus, she wakes up in a courtroom and is forced to confront the reason she ran away. A nightmare or reality? Poppy explores loss of innocence and the cost of being a bold, fearless young woman in today's society.

The Falling Man By Gethsemane Herron-Coward
The Falling Man is inspired by Richard Drew’s infamous photograph. Two women war with a journalist in the aftermath of their father’s absence post 9/11 New York. The Falling Man asks how one mourns a man who won’t return, a man who was half stolen to begin with.

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Director

Candis Jones

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