Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Forging a Festival for Black Playwrights
Forging a Festival for Black Playwrights
Published: July 2, 2010
Does the world need another festival for emerging playwrights?
Lynn Nottage
, above, answered with an emphatic yes this week by hosting a fund-raiser in her Brooklyn home to benefit the establishment of the New Black Fest, a festival aiming to showcase innovative work by and about black people from around the world. Its organizers and supporters are busy raising money and seeking out advisers in time for an autumn inaugural festival, which would include readings and panel discussions. “This is not about separation, it’s about inclusion,” said Ms. Nottage, who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “Ruined,” about women in a Congolese brothel. “It’s about inviting people who don’t get access.”
Katori Hall
(of the Broadway-bound play “The Mountaintop”) and