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Schedule of Upcoming Productions
Production History
| American Blues
| Open: 02/24/05 Close: 02/26/05
Four World Premiere New Works Come chuckle, weep, sympathize, rage, and grieve the November election results with four of New York's most talented theatre artists and monologuists as White Bird Productions presents a theatrical grass-roots revival of drama and debate about Red State/Blue State issues. Each solo work is a response to last fall's divisive political season. | |
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Born Of Conviction
| Open: 10/20/10 Close: 11/05/10
Presented by White Bird Productions. Shifting between a woman’s childhood memories of Mississippi in 1963 and her pressure-packed life in the present day, Born of Conviction asks, “Do you stay to confront social injustice, or do you leave to save your family?” Kelly doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going: she’s grieving over her father’s death, a white Mississippi minister; raising a New York City teenage daughter fomenting rebellion; and battling her African-American boyfriend, who’s only trying to give her the love she doesn’t feel she deserves. Maybe that’s why ghosts from her Southern Civil Rights-era past suddenly start haunting her. Playwright Kathryn Dickinson draws from documentary and biographical material for her latest play including the Born of Conviction statement signed in 1963 by 28 white Methodist ministers (including Dickinson’s father) of the Mississippi southern Methodist Conference. The statement opposed discrimination, communism and the closing of public schools to establish private academies using state funds.
Featuring: Dana Berger, Tammuz Frankel, Kathryn Velvel Jones*, Lila Smith Marooney, Jordan Mahome*, Christianna Nelson*, Barret O’Brien*, Amelia Olsen, Joel Van Liew*, Jennifer Dorr White*
Scenic Design: Kevin Judge
Lighting Design: Nick Francone
Costume Design: Liam O'Brien
Production Stage Manager: Tamesis Batiste
Producer: Kelly Hanson
Assistant Producer: Lorrie Harrison
Production Manager: Jeremy Lydic
Assistant Director: Starr Kirkland
Based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, White Bird Productions has been developing and presenting original theater since 1990. White Bird's Creative Theatrics program offers summer and after school programming to children and youth in Brooklyn, matching hundreds of young actors’ imaginations with the resources and skills of professional theater artists. The company has commissioned and produced original adaptations of Grimm’s Tales by Lynn Nottage, Melissa James Gibson, Jenny Lyn Bader, Marjorie Duffield, Onome Ekeh and the father-daughter teams of Jeffrey M. Jones and Camila Jones, and Len Jenkin and Zoe Jenkin. White Bird’s The Barbie Project at the OHIO Theater, produced to great acclaim, offered adults a forgotten glimpse of their childhoods.
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The Barbie Project
| Open: 11/10/05 Close: 11/19/05
The world premiere workshop exploring the many ways Barbie dolls find into our lives, as told via vaudeville-cabaret musical performances, monologues, dance and visual art | |
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