Staged Reading -New Federal Theater - NYC

AAPEX MEMBEr
Jamal Williams' play to be read
at
Abrons Arts Center, Recital Hall
466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002

In honor of Juneteenth and Father’s Day, LITERARY BREED takes an overview of past/current/future America through the eyes – and language – of African-American male playwrights including,

Joel Willis, Michael A. Jones, Michael P. Moss,
Cheo Jeffery, Allen Solder,

Kermit Frazier, Ajene D. Washington, Jamal Williams.


ACT TWO
SATURDAY JUNE 30th

3:00 pm
KERNEL OF SANITY
by Kermit Frazier
Directed by: TBA

Featuring TBA


5:00 pm
ALMOST SEPTEMBER
by (Ajene) D. Washington

Featuring Micki Grant, Charmae Monisse Theisz,
Zeb Hollins

The quiet tale of two women: a retired historian and the young graduate student she mentors in a small mid-western college town. Today, their relationship changes forever when a mysterious man arrives at their door.

7:30 pm
IS YOU IS OR IS YOU AIN'T
Written and Directed by Jamal Williams

Featuring Pamela Monroe, Nadhege Ptah,
Iris Williams, Taqiyya Holden, Erwin E.A. Thomas,
D.K. Bowser, Michele Baldwin, and Victor Dickerson

After World War II, victorious soldiers came home while newly liberated women had to give up their jobs and return to being mere housewives. Many black women escaped the South in the War years and had vowed never to return. Olivia Pondexter breaks the mold and returns to "rescue" two sisters. Not only does she bring with her a hatbox full of money, she finds herself haunted by the spirit of what she has shamefully tried to forget. What makes matters worse, is that in order to regain the crown of Matriarch she has to make them leave their men behind.