AWARDS

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2023 Black Music

City Grant Recipient       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLISHED WORK

 

• Philly Jawns: For Women Revisited, A 20+20 Poetry Anthology – In Tribute to Nina Simon

       Featured Poem – “Free To Be”, Released January 2021 (Available on Amazon.com)

 

• Mama Time: Queen Warriors and the Mothers Who Reared Them, Poetry Anthology (Ujima Press), Released April 2020 - Featured Poem: “Woman (An Ode To My Mother)”

 

• For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone – Poetry Anthology, Released in 2013                                                  

       Featured Poem: “Black Girl”

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MUSIC/SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES 

• Philly Jawns Poetry Anthology Virtual Tour December 2020 to Present via Zoom

       (Promoting the book Philly Jawns: For Women Revisted, A 20+20 Anthology In Tribute to Nina

        Simone)

• Uhuru Organization MLK Celebration - 2023 & 2017

• Uhuru Book Fair & Marketplace - 2017-2022

• 50th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery March  w/ the For Women Collective (2015)

• Philadelphia International Locks Conference (2005 to 2014)              

• A Poet’s Art Gallery   

• The Arts Garage 

• The Fourth Wall Arts Salon  

• The Harvest     

• The Rotunda                             

• October Gallery Panoramic Poetry                  

• Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts                  

• Jus Words                                                             

• World Café Live                                                   

                                                 

                                         

THEATRE/DANCE PERFORMANCES

 

Theatre

• Black Woman Unmasked ( A One-Woman Show) performed at: Lil Drummaboy Recording Studio November 2022 & at a private Black-owned art gallery, Philadelphia PA 2020 

• Khepera - Kline Theater at The Historic Church of the Advocate *Philadelphia Premiere

• Played Lady In Yellow in For Colored Girls - Kline Theater at The Historic Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia PA

• Played Lady In Brown In For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf - Dream On Productions Ent, Philadelphia PA

• Spunk - Kline Theater at The Historic Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia PA

• Olivia - IDEA Performing Arts Center, Camden NJ

• Love Queens Who Suffer From Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome – Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia PA

• It Comes With a Cost – Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia PA

• Long Time Since Yesterday – Bushfire Theatre, Philadelphia PA

• Songs of the Blue Goddess – A Misty Sol Production/Philadelphia Fringe Festival Performance, Philadelphia PA

• From the Motown to the Boogie Down - Headline Theater Company, Philadelphia PA

• Played Harriet Tubman in The Revolution Will Not Be Plagiarized - Headline Theater Company, Philadelphia PA

• Broadway Meets Broad Street/ Excerpt from A Raisin In The Sun  Played "Lena Younger (Mama)" -

         Headline Theater Company, Philadelphia PA                                              ​

• Broadway Meets Broad Street/ Excerpt from Westside Story, Singer/Dancer “America Song” -

         Headline Theater Company, Philadelphia PA                                                                       

• Historical Re-enactments – Bessie Smith & Harriet Tubman (African American Museum/Philadelphia)

• Kaleidoscope Arts Collective (4 years) 

• Headline Theatre Company (4 year Residency)

• Khepera – Off Broadway Production/ New York, NY  

 

​Dance

• Choroegraphed the Churchyard Dance Ritual - Black Vernacular Arts Festival at Tiny Farm Wagon Community Garden (produced by Misty Sol), Philadelphia PA

 

Dance Companies

Troupe Da Da African Dance Ensemble | Persona Zenobia Dance Ensemble | Kariamu & Company

• Odunde Festival/Philadelphia PA

• Afrikan Street Festival/ Brooklyn NY

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EVENTS PRODUCED 

• Black Woman Unmasked

• Complex But Beautiful,

• The Free Flow Exchange Presents InFusion: Where Music Meets The Word featuring Ursula Rucker & Black Ice

• Soul Renewal

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BROADCASTING WORK

Jazz Host/DJ for NPR Affiliate WRTI 90.1 FM (Temple Public Radio)

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