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EYEWITNESS
BLUES Cast
(in alphabetical order): Facility:
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schedule: PLEASE NOTE THAT THE APRIL 9TH 10:00 PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Exceptions:
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the artists: Steven Sapp is a founding member of Universes. Playwright/Actor credits: Rhythmicity in collaboration with Mildred Ruiz, Reg.e.gaines, Rha Goddess, Reggie Cabico, Willie Perdomo and Gamal Chasten. Co-Writer and performer in Universes’s Slanguage at New York Theater Workshop; and Universes’s The Ride. Off-Off Broadway credits: The Architecture of Loss (Assistant Director, NYTW); Soular Power’d (P.S. 122, New Victory Theater). Director: Will Power’s The Seven (Univ. of Iowa); Universes's The Ride; Reg.e.gaines's Tiers; Alfred Jarry’s Ubu: Enchained (Arts Link International Exchange with Teatre Polski, Poland). Steven is writer and director of Another I Dies Slowly and Purgatory. Awards and affiliations include: 2002 TCG National Directors Award; 2002-2004 and 1999-2001 TCG National Theater Artist Residency Program Award; 1998 and 2002 BRIO Awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts (Performance); fellowships with the Arts and Business Council and playwright organization New Dramatists; New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect; Artistic Associate, New WORLD Theater; Visiting Artist, Actors Theater of Louisville; Artist in Residence- Dance Theater Workshop. Publications: Black Rain and Not Black And White anthologies; Slanguage in “The Fire This Time,” a TCG Anthology. Considered a new voice for creative music, Paul Thompson was born in 1970. He grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of Bard College, and holds a Masters Degree in Music Composition and Improvisation from the California Institute of the Arts. His works for orchestra include Purple Black and Green (performed by the American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein conducting, 1993), a tribute to author Chinua Achebe titled Achebe (New Century Players in Los Angeles, 1995), and Soundspace: Spacesound, a collaboration with acclaimed Los Angeles architect Michael Rotondi. Thompson has also scored for television and film including The Real World for MTV and commercials for Kodak. From 2000-2003, he was Musical Director for WARCHILDUSA; as head of their rEvolve project, Thompson developed and implemented a program of music education to youngsters detained by the City of New York's Department of Juvenile Justice. Presently Thompson is a member of the New York City Leadership Academy’s Aspiring Principals Program and is planning the start of a new small public high school, the Urban Assembly High School of Music and Art, in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn. Born in Washington D.C., Antoine Drye began playing trumpet at the age of 8. Drye studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at the University of New Orleans in the program headed by Ellis Marsalis and Harold Battiste. While attending U.N.O., Drye worked on a regular basis with Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Wessell Anderson, Willie Lockett and the Blues Crew, and John Boutte, and occasionally with Ellis Marsalis and Donald Harrison. Following his graduation in 1995, Drye recorded the music of Harold Battiste with his fellow schoolmates and friends on a record titled "Next Generation - The Music of Harold Battiste" on AFO Records. Drye has worked with Rashied Ali, Miles Griffith, Donald Edwards, Elise Wood, Wycliff Gordon, Donald Harrison, Jazz Reach and Wilson Pickett to name a few. He has recorded with Rashied Ali, Miles Griffith, Russell Gunn. “Oblation,” his first recording as a leader was recorded in September, 2002. Drye has been working extensively with JazzReach, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to introducing jazz to young people through multi-media shows. Finally, he is also completing his MA at Queens College’s Aaron Copland School of Music. Talvin Wilks is a playwright, director, and dramaturg based in New York City. Recent directorial projects include Eyewitness Blues, by Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp (New WORLD Theater), UDU by Sekou Sundiata (651Arts/BAM), No Black Male Show (Joe’s Pub/The Public Theater) and Pagan Operetta (The Kitchen) by Carl Hancock Rux, Legends by Leslie Lee (St. Louis Black Repertory Company), Three Willies by Homer Jackson and Leroy Jenkins (The Kitchen) and the Obie Award/AUDELCO Award winning, The Shaneequa Chronicles by Stephanie Berry (Ensemble Studio Theatre). He has served as co-writer/dramaturg for seven productions in Ping Chong’s ongoing series of Undesirable Elements (Seattle Group Theater, Atlanta -7 Stages, Charleston - Spoleto Festival, USA, UE:30 - La Mama, Pioneer Valley, MA - New WORLD Theater, Lille, France and Rome, Italy [RomaEuropa Festival]); and three collaborations with the Bebe Miller Company, Going to the Wall (The Joyce), the Bessie Award-winning, Verge (651 Arts/BAM), and the upcoming Landing/Place Project. He served as the Interim Artistic Director for New WORLD Theater, in residence at the Fine Arts Center on the University of Massachusetts/Amherst campus and was an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater from 2002-2004.
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