Cheril N. Clarke

Pride Films and Plays is delighted to announce the results of our 2016 LezPlay Contest. From nearly three dozen entries, five finalists have been selected to receive staged readings of their scripts during LezPlay Weekend, which runs October 7-9 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre of Center on Halsted in Chicago.

Pride Films and Plays is delighted to announce the results of our 2016 LezPlay Contest. From nearly three dozen entries, five finalists have been selected to receive staged readings of their scripts during LezPlay Weekend, which runs October 7-9 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre of Center on Halsted in Chicago.

The musical KINGDOM COME, written by New York-based Matthew Osceola Webster, won BEST PLAY at the 10thAnniversary season of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF).

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) returns for a 10th Anniversary season at its inaugural stage at HERE in SoHo, Manhattan, NYC.

The Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) launches "NEXT STOP: Downtown for Real Theater!" campaign for its 10th Anniversary season and features '15 writers from America's burgeoning multicultural landscape from Los Angeles to New York City who have come to share their stories that interpret our history and our times.'

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) returns for a 10th Anniversary season at its inaugural stage at HERE in SoHo, Manhattan, NYC.

The Philly Urban Theater Festival (PUTF) kicked off its inaugural season at the Adrienne Theater in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and featured 14 theatrical works written by Kash Goins (VI Degrees and VII Deadly Sins), Tiffany Joyner (Apologies are for The Living), Race Brown (Cold), Briana Cannon (The Gentle Cycle of Dirty Laundry), Kareem Rogers (Twice Loved), Donja R. Love (The Nigga Files), Shenille Melton (When the Smoke Cleared), Cheril N. Clarke (Intimate Chaos), Jamila Capitman and Heather Thomas (Love Queens Who Suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Lee Colston (Roost), Karen Waller-Martin (Director of the only non-original piece in the festival, The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe), Tiffany Wilson (Shaking the Truth Loose), and Andre N. Jones (Verbalized Ink).

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin. There was once a time that these were the names to roll easily off of the tongue when considering the contemporary African-American playwright.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin. There was once a time that these were the names to roll easily off of the tongue when considering the contemporary African-American playwright.

August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes. These were the names that easily rolled off of the tongue when you thought of the African-American playwright. However, now in the Tyler Perry generation, you struggle to find African-americans who have knowledge of those playwrights let alone more recent ones such as Lynn Nottage and Anna Deavere- Smith. Fortunately, the times are a-changing.