A new play reading and immersive experience by cultural worker & playwright, Goldie E. Patrick.
Step deep inside the new play creation process with playwright & cultural worker Goldie E. Patrick to experience how her family history set the stage for her newest play.
Come witness excerpts from this new work about love, forgiveness, and the audacity to dream. It is June in 1946 in Hooper City, Alabama and the secrets between the family that the distance has been able to keep quiet, begin to unveil themselves. Will their family survive their own truths? This radical re-imagining is where actual family history sets the stage for the plot, characters and themes.
Folks can join the playwright for a day-long immersive experience on how the world of the play came to life.
About the Artist: Goldie E. Patrick
For over 25 years Goldie E. Patrick has been passionately working, living, and creating theatre. A graduate of Howard University (BFA-Acting) and Columbia University (MFA-Playwriting) she has been working thoughtfully as a writer, dramaturg, as well as a director—to create works that illuminate the divinity of the Black experience. While the work simultaneously pushes the boundaries of form, style, and aesthetic. With the completion of her latest cycle of plays, “Ebo, the Orisa Cycle”; at the intersection of ritual theater and hip hop/spoken word theater is where Goldie has rooted most of her work.
As a bold public advocate for Black womxn and girls, she has gained international recognition for her work as founder, and Producing Artistic Director of F.R.E.S.H.H. Inc Theatre Company. Her work includes the development of a unique curriculum which includes a playwriting program for early career Black women playwrights, culturally competent acting and devising techniques, and a series of Hip Hop Theatre curricula. She proudly proclaims that she descendant of Nigerian and Cameroonian Africans enslaved in South Carolina and Alabama. All these people and truths live in everything she writes. The assertion of her diasporic identity punctuates her covenant to write of and between, both past and future: ancestor and child. She writes to counter the forced silence and invisibility of Black womxn and girls.
The unique interchange of her work as an award winning writer, director and a cultural worker is indicative of her holistic approach to her theatre-making. She has been an educator for over 20 years. Goldie has taught at Howard University, NYU, and Howard County Community College and at SUNY Purchase.