Theater Review @NewYorkTheaterWorkshop

Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City “ I have rarely seen a play that so effectively describes the way external forces- in this case immigration policies in the United States- distort the inner lives of actual humans.”
– The New York Times

“Crossing The Line Festival”

Somi Music @FIAFNY 2021, Florence Gould Hall

International artists brought to NYC to curate a festival at the L’Alliance New York. Thematic programs arranged, in the multifaceted, Festival of African Diasporic Artists during 2021. A variety of artistic identities centered on their geographic locality.

Fouad Boussouf: Näss(people,) The Joyce Theatre, 2022.

Performance Date:
October 18 – 23, 2022

Haiku Review:
Wavering t-shirts
hot Mediterranean
the people prevail

*Presented as part of FIAFNY’s “Crossing The Line Festival”

Somi Music

after experiencing Somi Music in 2021, anticipation for The New York Theater Workshop production of “Dreaming Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam MaKeba,” was motivation for an investigative essay into the History of American Musicals/ History of Africa.

NEW Childhood Dream: Drawing Superheroes

A Personal Essay into the multiple themes and layers of experimental theater in the form of an epic poem that transcends African Art & Thought for a contemporary audience.

The Half-God of Rainfall(2023), by Inua Ellams, was another episode of transcultural theater for a wide audience to internalize personal trauma. Thematically the play used many subtext to discuss the Yoruba Gods and goddess as popular culture pacified as the Other, the poem directs our attention for such themes as sports, mythology, the African diaspora, religion, and gender in Ellams’s epic poem produced by the New York Theater Workshop.

Dance