Theater Alliance presents A Chorus Within Her (2020). A Devised Choreopoem by Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Glenis Redmond, Christine Sloan Stoddard, Carmin Wong, and the Ensemble.
They delight in Carmin Wong’s “Coming of Age,” which accumulates a series of verbs and adjectives to delineate the experiences of growing up female, told in the second person. Each finds multiple resonances in repeated phrases like “You run, you wait, you breathe, you twenty, you here.”
This is a beautiful and precious experience of the sacred and the profane, the absurd and the flat-out real, the mundane and the momentous that informs the decision we make, the paths we reject, and the way we present to the world. This is theatre for all of us.
Theater Alliance presents CRIMINALIZE ME! A PLAY OF POETRY AND PROVOCATION (2019).
How do young people navigate a system that doesn’t validate their humanity? Written by Carmin Wong, this play a series of 8 short films, each addressing a request made by the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Theater Alliance continues the fight for justice and change with film series, A Protest in Eight
''In developing A Protest in Eight, we at Theater Alliance, have been inspired to reimagine how we reach our audience when they need community and conversation the most.' (Raymond Caldwell, Artistic producer)
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“Fiya Wata”, “Autobiography for the body that won’t leave”, “Cracking Coconut”, “fleeing home,” Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. (Forthcoming)
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"How’s the Big Easy?", "What will happen once quarantine is over?", and "The Moment We Learn We Are Dying", Sou'wester. (May, 2021)
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“Why I Can’t Cook” and “In the Village of Hammamat”, Xavier Review. (March, 2021)
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"Black:", The New Southern Fugitives. (February, 2021)
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"The Proper Way to Prepare the U.S. Flag", Ellipses. (December, 2020). Awarded Honorable Mention by the Academy of American Poets
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"The Proper Way to Prepare the U.S. Flag", Split This Rock!'s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. (August, 2020)
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“Broken english”, Antenna.Works. (July, 2019)
SELECTED POEMS
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS
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Choreopoem. A Chorus Within Her, Triptych Project, Theater Alliance. (October 2021)
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Play. CRIMINALIZE ME! A Play of Poetry and Provocation, Protest in Eight Project, Theater Alliance. (December, 2020).
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Play. TRIGGER. Howard Players' 8x10 Play Festival, Howard University. (October, 2018). Third Place Winner of the 8x10 Play Festival.
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Monologue. "3 Generations," Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Young Women’s Voices Monologue Competition, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. (February, 2018). Selected by Woolly Mammoth Co. in Washington, D.C.