Beautiful Creatives!
Check out the fantastic things playwright/Actor/writer/activist Jared Shamberger of The Welders 3.0 has cookin when you read this article authored by good brother Gregory Ford!!
THE B WORD written and performed by Jared Shamberger, directed by Raymond O Caldwell, Streaming July 30th thru August 15th.
https://www.thewelders.org/shows/the-b-word/
OCOMOGOSIAY!!
🎭✊🏾❤🖤💚💛
'If you have been watching the DC theater scene, you have probably heard of Jared Shamberger. He was a member both of the 2018 Helen Hayes Award–winning production Still Life with Rocket and of the highly acclaimed reimagining of Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward. Both of these performances were produced under the umbrella of the small, formidable, and feisty, Anacostia-based theater company Theater Alliance. (If you haven't seen something by Theater Allliance, you should. The B Word is, in fact, directed by Theater Alliance Artistic Director Raymond Caldwell. So when you see The B Word, you'll get an intimation of the Theater Alliance boldness.)
Jared has also been a reliable presence with both Alan Sharpe's African-American Collective Theater and the Brave Soul Collective, of which he (along with Monte J Wolfe and others) is a founding member. Both of these theater companies focus on the stories of Black LGBTQ+ lives. "The B Word is an extension of all of those things. I wouldn't be doing the work that I am doing if it weren't for Alan and Monte. [Working with these two companies has clarified for me that] visibility is important, being able to tell the stories that I want to tell in the way the I want to tell them without the barrier of a theater company or a group of people saying. 'We would love to do your work but we have to change this or that.' It's important to be in control of your own story. If you are not telling your story other people will tell It for you."'
--Gregory Ford
The B Word presented by The Welders will stream on demand July 30 through August 15, 2021. Tickets are available online.https://www.thewelders.org/shows/the-b-word/
Check out the fantastic things playwright/Actor/writer/activist Jared Shamberger of The Welders 3.0 has cookin when you read this article authored by good brother Gregory Ford!!
THE B WORD written and performed by Jared Shamberger, directed by Raymond O Caldwell, Streaming July 30th thru August 15th.
https://www.thewelders.org/shows/the-b-word/
OCOMOGOSIAY!!
🎭✊🏾❤🖤💚💛
'If you have been watching the DC theater scene, you have probably heard of Jared Shamberger. He was a member both of the 2018 Helen Hayes Award–winning production Still Life with Rocket and of the highly acclaimed reimagining of Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward. Both of these performances were produced under the umbrella of the small, formidable, and feisty, Anacostia-based theater company Theater Alliance. (If you haven't seen something by Theater Allliance, you should. The B Word is, in fact, directed by Theater Alliance Artistic Director Raymond Caldwell. So when you see The B Word, you'll get an intimation of the Theater Alliance boldness.)
Jared has also been a reliable presence with both Alan Sharpe's African-American Collective Theater and the Brave Soul Collective, of which he (along with Monte J Wolfe and others) is a founding member. Both of these theater companies focus on the stories of Black LGBTQ+ lives. "The B Word is an extension of all of those things. I wouldn't be doing the work that I am doing if it weren't for Alan and Monte. [Working with these two companies has clarified for me that] visibility is important, being able to tell the stories that I want to tell in the way the I want to tell them without the barrier of a theater company or a group of people saying. 'We would love to do your work but we have to change this or that.' It's important to be in control of your own story. If you are not telling your story other people will tell It for you."'
--Gregory Ford
The B Word presented by The Welders will stream on demand July 30 through August 15, 2021. Tickets are available online.https://www.thewelders.org/shows/the-b-word/
Read the full article here:
https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2021/07/16/jared-shamberger-on-the-urgency-of-embracing-the-b-word/
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