“I want to create work where Black people and Black queer people can see themselves in the work and not have to find themselves. My mission right now is to do it in as many different genres as possible because Black people are brilliant, to put it plainly, and I feel like there is so much cool shit that we don't get to do. That was part of the inspiration for my play Covenant, a horror play with Black people at the center of it…I just finished a farce because we don't have many Black farces, which makes no sense to me! Black people are the funniest people in the world.”
This week we talk with the inaugural recipient of Vineyard Theatre’s Colman Domingo Award and the inaugural recipient of the John Singleton Screenwriter Award, playwright and screenwriter York Walker. We talk about the Disney kid to Broadway fan pipeline, his artistic philosophy as a playwright, and what he learned from working on his first professional production of his horror play Covenant.
Recommendation: Ayana George Jackson’s performance of Beyoncé’s “Bigger” (VIDEO)
Shout out: Kemiyondo Coutinho, Manuel Sandridge, Nemuna Ceesay, Lateefah Holder, and Kayla Davion
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