THANK YOU!

Once again ActNow's New Voices in Theater (NVIT) was a SUCCESS! Thank you all for showing your support to the developers (Tanya Everett, Clinton Lowe and Patrick Shand) and cast (Bianca Laverne-Jones, Stephen Hill, Ginger Spencer, Lindsay Strachan, Tanya Everett, and Clinton Lowe) of GAME FACE directed by Kehinde Koyejo.

We are very excited to be able to bring to the Forte Green Brooklyn area quality readings that feature the works of new (published and unpublished) playwrights of color.

Please stay tuned for ActNow's upcoming events AND if you are a playwright or actor and would like to be considered for NVIT 's future readings/productions please submit your play or headshot/resume to kehinde.actnow@gmail.com.

Mark your calendars!!!! August 10th-13th ActNow will produce a four day mini theater festival! It will be a day of food, fun, networking, staged readings and more! Trust me, you don't want to miss !

Kehinde Koyejo

For Flow Wrap Up

ActNow’s New Voices in Theater’s (NVIT) reading of “For Flow” (by Kesav Wable and directed by Kehinde Koyejo) was a SUCCESS! Thank you all for coming out and supporting ActNow, the playwright and of course the AMAZING cast: Donald Calliste, DJ Mitchell, Hollis Hayden, Clinton Lowe and Mr. Aurtur French. We are very excited to be able to bring to the Fort Green Brooklyn area quality readings that feature the works of new (published and unpublished) playwrights of color. Please stay tuned for ActNow's upcoming events AND if you are a playwright or actor and would like to be considered for NVIT future readings/productions please submit your play or headshot and resume to info@actnowproduction.org Mark your calendars!!!! New Voices in Theater’s next reading will be Wednesday May 25th. Trust me, you don’t want to miss it! Submit!

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Thank you again to everyone who came out to the ActNow New Voices in Black Cinema Festival.
We would love to here what you thought of the event. Please take a couple of minutes to fill out our survey. The Festival will be back at BAM February 2012 and your feedback will help us make it bigger and better!

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ActNow New Voices in Theater Presents: For Flow

ActNow's New Voices in Theater Reading Series features the works of new, published and unpublished playwrights of color and on March 30th we will be featuring a piece written by Kesav M. Wable.

"For Flow" borrows Andrew Beckett's existential landscape and transplants two 'Beckettian' clownsrappers to a lonely street corner in the Bronx where they wait for a record producer; they're later joined by a woman DJ and Delta Blues guitarist who also meet at this crossroad in search of their own destinies. "For Flow" will be directed by Kehinde Koyejo. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the writer.

Stage Directions - Donald Calliste
Dee - Clinton Lowe
Kane - Hollis Hayden
Roxanne -DJ. Mitchell
Broonzy -Arthur French

The reading will be held at:
ActNow Foundation in the South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street
Brooklyn, New York 11217

Wednesday March 30
Time: 6:30pm light reception/
7:15pm Reading of 'For Flow'

RSVP REQUIRED. SEATS ARE LIMITED.

rsvp@actnowproduction.org
www.actnowproduction.org
$5 donation suggested

Please come out and support! See you there!

The Colored Museum -- Encore!

If you missed last year's production of The Colored Museum or you loved it so much you want to see it again here is your chance.

George C. Wolfe's classic theater work will once again be directed by Bill Johnson- featuring Soyini Crenshaw, Melissa Gibbs, Myriam Moss, Nihara Nichelle, Jasmine Taylor,Tavarius Graves, Rafael Moreno, Michael Stith & FranCisco Vegas.

Only $20

March 9-13 @ 8pm

March 12-13 @ 2pm

Roy Arias Studios & Theaters

300 W. 43rd street - 4th floor

New York, New York 10036

See you there!

2011 Act Now: New Voices In Black Cinema Film Festival Wrap-Up

A huge, ginormous THANK YOU to everyone who came out and supported The ActNow New voices In Black Cinema Film Festival. Tambay Obenson, film curator for ActNow wrote an incredible review of our event on his blog Shadow And Act. Click here to read it. You can also read also read a write up of the festival on XI Magazine.

Aaron Ingram, executive director of ActNow received a Thank You note from one of our guests and I wanted to share it with you:

Dear ActNow,

I just want to say thank you for presenting New Voices in Black Cinema it was truly awesome. A great experience for me, an aspiring writer as well as my two lil young ladies who are being opened to culture and seeing young black men and women represented behind the scenes...directing, filming, writing etc. Just wanted to take the time to let you know that you all have made me so proud.

Nicole O'Connor Bed-Stuy

This letter is why we at ActNow do what we do.

Stay tuned we have more great programs in store!

Interview with Clint Dyer

Clint Dyer is the actor and producer of the film SUS and I was lucky enough to ask him a few questions about SUS. If one of your questions were not answered here please come to the screening on Monday February 7th at 9:30pm. Clint Dyer will be present and you can ask him a question yourself.

Before you check out the interview view the trailer for SUS.





Now on to the interview.


You were involved in the stage version of SUS. How did you get involved in the play and how did you find yourself starring in the film?

I performed the play ten years ago and was offered it again. On reading it I remembered how fantastic it was and decided to make it happen as a film as well as doing the new stage production.

What lessons did you learn while filming SUS?

Producing and acting at the same time is tough!

What challenges did you incur while acting in such a powerful film?

Having to stay in that emotional head space for so long was hardest.

Did you face any objections bringing sus laws to light?

Yes we had objections from Angela Rippon and Anna Ford two news readers who are mentioned in the play and featured in the film (but had to be cut out of the film). Apart from them everyone was very happy a message and film like SUS was being put out there, as the problems with Racism are still a big problem in the UK.

What impact do you think this film will have on our Brooklyn audience?

I can only hope that the response will be one of empathy, anger and some kind of hope, in that we are able to show our experiences in an entertaining heartfelt way.

How will audiences who have seen both stage version of SUS react to the film adaptation?

I think they will react the same.....nothing is diluted, possibly it is enhanced.

What can you tell us about your next project?

It will be a film called FAM which I have co-written to which I will act in and direct.


See you at the Festival! Purchase your tickets now.