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“Writers on Writing” Radio Show
October 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“Writers on Writing” Radio Show
Sunday, October 18, 2020
7:00– 7:30pm
Interview with Keith Josef Adkins
With Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Executive Director
Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Listen on radio station WNYE 91.5 FM
About the Episode
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews playwright, screenwriter, scriptwriter, and artistic director Keith Josef Adkins. They discuss his journey from poet to playwright and scriptwriter, his founding of The New Black Fest, the relationship between the artists of the Black Arts Movement, the impact of the social justice movement and Black Lives Matter Movement on Black film and theater, and the current state of plays, films, television scripts created by Black writers.
About the Author
Keith Josef Adkins is a playwright, screenwriter, and artistic director. His plays include The People Before the Park, about the 19th-century Black community Seneca Village that was destroyed to create Central Park. His play Pitbulls received its world premiere Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Theater, NYC in November 2014; Safe House received its world premiere in October 2014 at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and The Last Saint on Sugar Hill received its New York City premiere in 2013 at Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theater in NYC and earned six 2014 AUDELCO nominations. His other plays include The Final Daze, The Dangerous, and Sugar and Needles, among others. Adkins is also the artistic director of The New Black Fest, an organization dedicated to new and provocative playwriting, films, and discussion from the African Diaspora. As a screenwriter, he has penned the sci-fi thriller feature film The First as well as The Disappearing, a drama-thriller feature script, for Simon Says Entertainment.
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