Black Women in Theater
Elm City LIT Fest
English - March 16, 2021 16:38 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBBooks Arts Society & Culture arts culture black bipoc african african american literature book club black stories Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Discussion with rising Black Women Playwrights a.k. Payne & Abigail Onwunali about their work and the future of Black Theater.
Abigail C. Onwunali (she/her/hers)- Actor/Poet/Writer. Abigail is a second-year
MFA Acting student at the Yale School of Drama. In undergrad, at the University of Texas at Austin, she is one of the most accomplished performers in the history of forensics, having won 13 collegiate national titles across four different interpretation categories over her 4 year career. She has been a sacrificial poet for many events including Texas Grand Slam and Slam Mania hosted by Write About Now.
a.k. payne (she/they) is a playwright, artist-theorist and theatermaker whose people
are rooted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her plays love on and engage the interdependencies of Black pasts, presents and futures and seek to find/remember
language that might move us towards our collective liberation(s). She holds a B.A. in
English and African-American Studies from Yale College and is currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting from Yale School of Drama. akpayne.com