48HOURS IN...HARLEM ANTHOLOGIES
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An inspired collection of 12 short plays per volume commissioned by an OBIE award winning theatre collaborative for their annual 48Hours in… Harlem® play festival. Written by established and emerging playwrights.
9 Volumes available for purchase directly on Amazon.
First presented at The HSA Theater in Harlem, New York City, August 2011 and 2012, these plays were inspired by some of our great American storytellers including: Adrienne Kennedy, Richard Wesley, Charles Fuller, Suzan Lori-Parks, and George C. Wolfe
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Ayanna Maia’s Funny, I’m A Negro
Harrison David Rivers’ delicious(!)
Keith Josef Adkins’ Potato Salad
Derek Lee McPhatter’s All That Yes We Can and Stuff Mfoniso Udofia’s Hunger
Dominique Morisseau’s The Masterpiece
Zoey Martinson’s The Birthday
Marcus Gardley’s Let The Church Say…
Kevin R. Free’s Turn This Motha Out (With Prayer)
Christine Jean Chambers’ Half Brothers
France-Luce Benson’s Red Bottom
D.A. Taylor’s Soldiering
Presented at The HSA Theater in August 2013 and The National Black Theatre in Harlem, New York City, in August 2014, these plays were inspired by some of our great American storytellers including:
Aimé Césaire, Lorraine Hansberry, Leslie Lee, Lynn Nottage,
Joseph A. Walker and August Wilson.
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Dennis A. Allen II’s Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Shaun Neblett’s 5% Ring Dream
Jocelyn Bioh’s Teena… With Two “E”’s
Nambi E. Kelley’s A Rose Deferred
Nathan Yungerberg’s Brush Strokes
Myla Francine Churchill-Barrett’s Tempest Tossed
Jesse Cameron Alick’s for colored boys who have considered colored girls when what was wasn’t enough
Lucy Judith Adong’s’ Blood
J. Holtham’s Shadow Of An Angel
Pia Wilson’s All OK
James Scruggs’ Better Than Yellow
Nikkole Salter’s Keepers
October 2016 Drama Bookshop - Book Launch - NYC
Presented at The National Black Theatre in 2015 and 2016, these plays were inspired by some of our great American storytellers including: Ama Ata Aidoo, Alice Childress, Rita Dove, Lonnie Elder III, Don Evans, J.E. Franklin, Charles Gordone, Laurence Holder, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion McClinton, Carl Hancock Rux and August Wilson.
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Angelica Cheri’s Daddy Blue Parker
Camille Darby’s Free
Keelay Gipson’s Lunchtime in Heaven
Chisa Hutchinson’s The Pull of Gravity
Nilan Johnson’s The Shadow in the Corner
Danielle Eliska Lyle's Stereo-Yooooo. Yo
Cassandra Medley's Inheritance
Jerome A. Parker's A Different World
Cori Thomas' Somebody Somewhere
Germono Toussaint's The Cross and the Karma
Korde A. Tuttle's Assembly
James Anthony Tyler’s Grow
Presented at The National Black Theatre in 2017 and 2018, these plays were inspired by some of our great American storytellers including: Ama Ata Aidoo, Alice Childress, Rita Dove, Lonnie Elder III, Don Evans, J.E. Franklin, Charles Gordone, Laurence Holder, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion McClinton, Carl Hancock Rux and August Wilson.
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Jordan E. Cooper's Blood
Stacey Rose's The Ballad O' Nigg-O-Lee
Cynthia Robinson's Rome in Love
Donja R. Love's Call Her Simone
Kelley Girod's Rote
Bernard J. Tarver's Spooks
Ngozi Anyanwu's What Now?
Liza Jessie Peterson's #CornrowMojo
Tylie Shider's Spider-Man and His Muses
Michael Dinwiddie's Short Road
Reneé Flemings' Surface
NSangou Njikam's Anon's Gone
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Karen Chilton's Cassius: A Suite Blues
C.A. Johnson's Out the Dark
York Walker's The Seance
Liz Morgan's groupchat
Charles White's White Gloves
Aurin Squire's Rainbow
Keith Josef Adkins' Last White Man in Power
Tracey Lee Conyer's House of a Negro. Funny
Nadine Mozon's Broad Daylight Signs and Wonders
jeremy o'brian's i hate everything
L. Trey Wilson's Day of… What!?
Brittany K. Allen's the noir-femme avengers
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Gethsemane Herron's Juke
Travis Tate's and the gods bless them
Azure D. Osborne-Lee's Offspring
Eureka Lewis's Chosen Ones
Maia Matsushita's Of A Mind
Reynaldo Piniella's Astro Black
M.D. Schaffer's Don't Let Them Steal It
Travis Tate's Waterfront Property
Andrea Ambam's I WOKE/ I WAKE / AWAKE
Julienne Hairston's Belonging
a.k. payne's ghosts or rollin stones
Christin Eve Cato's Salty Clowns
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Sol Crespo's A Toast
Migdalia Cruz's dHow To Put out a Fire
Candido Tirado's My Bronx Bus Tour
Rebecca Martinez’s Survivors
Marco Antonia Rodriguez’s The Kingdom By The Sea
Edwin Sanchez’s The Widow of Hunts Point Auto Glass
Raquel Almazan’s When I Came Home
Georgina Escobar's In The Life Of Stones
Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya’s Old B-Girl an dRival of Old B-Girl (Also Old) A Thousand Years After Scratching the Fever Capital of the Solar System
Pablo García Gámez’s Eclipse Total en G.T.'s
Modesto Flako Jiménez's Pensamientos
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Peggy Robles-Alvarado's Bringing the Boy Back
Christin Eve Cato's From Hunts Point to Whitlock
Pablo García Gámez's Hidden in Mount Eden
Guadalis del Carmen's Las Palomas
Modesto "Flako" Jimenez's ¿Cómo es que se dice?... Poetry in Motion' no eh?
Julissa Contreras' La Limpieza
Andrew Rincón's Dancing Salsa is Dancing with the Divine
Nelson Diaz-Marcano's Human Graffiti
Alisha Espinosa's La Bulla
Andres Osorio's Olvido
Alejandra Ramos Riera's Rhythms of Hearts
The 12 plays presented in this collection are:
Jacob Daniel Smith's You Belong Here
Shawntai Brown's We Own Everything
Sean Paraventi's Memories of Mom
Jonathan Johnson's The Vigor of the Roar
Heather Raffo's Take Shelter Detroit
Jessica Care Moore's Resurrected
Craig Ester's Black Like Who?
Jeffry Chastang's Inside Nyledama
Emilio Rodriguez's Destination Planet Earth
Carollette Phillips's Black to the Future
Danielle Eliska Lyle's From Hoteping to Birthing
Camille Simone Thomas's Jolt