ATLANTA, July 22, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Kenny
Leon's True Colors Theatre Company today announced the Next
Narrative Monologue CompetitionSM, a new, national program for high
school students that will feature the works of a host of
contemporary African-American playwrights.
The competition will launch in the Fall of 2021, with potential
partner organizations in a number of cities including Triad Stage,
Greensboro, N.C.; Milwaukee Rep,
Milwaukee; and LEAP, New York City.
"The Next Narrative Monologue CompetitionSM will give high
school students across the country and the broader public exposure
to some of the country's most notable contemporary Black
playwrights," said True Colors' Managing Director Chandra Stephens-Albright. "After many years of
incredible success in producing a national monologue competition
for high school students, we are expanding the scope to create
direct engagement with living playwrights for education and
inspiration."
A number of well-known Black playwrights, including Robert O'Hara, Candrice
Jones, Josh Wilder and
James Tyler, have expressed interest
in the competition. "What excites me about this new competition is
that it will expand the canon of storytelling beyond traditional
narratives and allow young people to explore language and voices
that look, feel and sound like them," said O'Hara. "Black
playwriting is vast and varied and deserves to be celebrated and
witnessed."
The Next Narrative Monologue CompetitionSM is one of the initial
steps on a new path toward the future for True Colors Theatre
Company.
"We have had a remarkable journey becoming a vibrant, successful
regional theater company driven by our incredible founder,
Kenny Leon. Now is the time to
become a nationally acknowledged, leading Black theater company,"
said True Colors' Artistic Director Jamil
Jude. "One of our goals is to become the standard bearer for
contemporary and next generation Black theater and the Next
Narrative Monologue CompetitionSM is a great start toward that
goal."
For more information on True Colors Theatre Company please visit:
http://www.truecolorstheatre.org.
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About Kenny Leon's True Colors
Theatre Company
Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre
Company is a nonprofit regional theater company based in
Atlanta, GA. True Colors Theatre
Company's mission is to celebrate the rich tradition of Black
storytelling while giving voice to bold artists from all cultures.
We add dimension and relevance to our work on the stage through
community events and education programming. The vision of Artistic
Director Jamil Jude is for the
company to "thrive at the intersection of artistic excellence and
civic engagement." For more information on True Colors, visit
http://www.truecolorstheatre.org.
Media Contact
William Marks, True Colors
Theatre, +1 404-510-9347, bmarks@markspartners.com
SOURCE True Colors Theatre