Join WACO Theater Center, Newark Symphony Hall and Yendor Theatre Company, for Revolutionary Black Women, a virtual panel centering on the role Black women play in movements of social change, on March 15th, 2022.
Moderated by WACO Theater Center’s Co-Artistic Director Tina Knowles Lawson, the panel features activist Elaine Brown, theatremaker Erin Michelle Washington, dramaturg and CUNY Professor of African American Studies Marta Effinger Crichlow and artists Michele Morgan and Taylor Edwards, featured in the film “Black Terror”.
The roundtable is the first in a series of three virtual events leading up to the premiere of the film “Black Terror,” this Fall directed by WACO Theater Center’s Co-Artistic Director Richard Lawson.
Panelists include:
- Elaine Brown, a former leader of the Black Panther Party as Minister of Information and Chairman;
- Erin Michelle Washington, the founder of Soul Productions, a company that exposes urban communities to independent artists who are pioneering new approaches to music and theater;
- Marta Effinger Crichlow, a dramatist who has worked across the U.S. for over twenty years and whose work centers the lives of Black women and girls;
- Michele Morgan, an actress and NAACP Theater Award recipient for her role in “Pearl,” and plays N’Zingha in the upcoming film adaption of “Black Terror.”
- and Taylor Edwards, featured in the film “Black Terror”
