artist cv
COLLABORATIONS/VOLUNTEER WORK
ARTS DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION
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Arizona Informant Foundation
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Arizona Informant Newspaper
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City of Phoenix Project B.R.A.V.E.
(Parks & Recreation) -
City of Phoenix Youth Commission Accept The Challenge Dropout Prevention Program
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CollabX
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Friends of South Phoenix Youth Center
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Radio Phoenix
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The Black Theatre Troupe
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BlackPoet Ventures, Co-Founder
(a Fractured Atlas project) -
Convergent Arts, Founding Member
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LIVE POETIC, Founder
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Phoenix Arts Think Tank, Member
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Phoenix Festival of the Arts, Committee Member - 2012
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SendAPoet, Creator
(a Fractured Atlas project)
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Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Research and Development Grants Panel, December 2015
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Tempe Arts Panel, May 2013
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Mentee, Rod Ambrose (lifetime member of The Black Theatre Troupe)
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Baccalaureate Studies, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism - Arizona State University Tempe
(Public Relations/Marketing emphases) -
Associate Degree, Journalism - Glendale Community College
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Associate Degree, Public Relations - Glendale Community College
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Diploma, Carl Hayden Community High School (Computer and Agricultural Magnet School)
JOURNALISTIC WORK (PRINT, ONLINE & BROADCAST)
Online: Contributing Writer, BroadwayBlack.com; Contributing Writer, ValleyHype.com
Broadcast: Arts & Culture Director / Senior Producer, RadioPhoenix.org (The Bungalow Show; LIVE POETIC with Leah Marche)
Print: Contributing Writer, Arizona Informant Newspaper; Contributing Writer / Creative Director, PUB Magazine; Contributing Writer, PHX Downtown Magazine
Other: Public Relations Intern, City of Phoenix Public Information Office | Editor, The Voice; Host, Bent Cable (Glendale Community College); Yearbook Editor, Feature Editor (Carl Hayden Community H.S.)
DRAMATIC WRITING
2010 - present
2010 - present
BlackPoet Ventures
2014-2015
Fall 2009
Fall 2008
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Spring 2006
Winners Have Yet To Be Announced: A Song For Donny Hathaway (Revision/Excerpt)
Special Muhammad Ali Tribute
Winners Have Yet To Be Announced: A Song For Donny Hathaway (Adaptation)
Soft & Wet: From Her Lips To Your Ears Vol 2
Soft & Wet: From Her Lips To Your Ears Vol 1
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today
PRODUCTION / STAGE MANAGEMENT
August 2015
May 2015
September 2014
June/July 2014
February 2013
June 2012
May 2012
March 2012
January 2012
November 2011
October 2010
April 2009
June 2008
May/June 2008
August 2009
April/May 2009
January 2008
February 2007
April 2006
Love Thing LLC
BlackPoet Ventures
Love Thing LLC
BlackPoet Ventures
ASU Black Theatre Festival
BlackPoet Ventures
Black Theatre Troupe
BlackPoet Ventures
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Marriage Retreat, Tucson AZ
Arts Exchange, Atlanta GA
Helen K. Mason Performing Arts Center, Phoenix AZ
Phoenix Center for the Arts
ASU Prism Theatre, Tempe AZ
St Louis Fringe Festival, Kranzberg Black Box, St. Louis MO
Rhythm Room, Phoenix AZ
Phoenix Fringe Festival, Warehouse 1005, Phoenix AZ
Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles CA
Rhythm Room, Phoenix AZ
Playhouse on the Park at the VIAD, Phoenix AZ
Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ
South Mountain Community College, Phoenix AZ
ASU Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale AZ
National Black Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem NC
Playhouse on the Park at the VIAD, Phoenix AZ
Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix AZ
Phoenix College Dome Room, Phoenix AZ
The Love Thing by Iris Huey | Directed by Iris Huey
Winners Have Yet To Be Announced: A Song For Donny Hathaway by Leah Marché (Ed Pavlic, author) | Directed by Rod Ambrose
The Love Thing
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks | Directed by Michael Traylor
The Face of Emmett Till by Mamie Till-Mobley and David Barr III | Directed by Asantewa Sunni-Ali
Cool Like That: A Tribute To Miles Davis by Rod Ambrose | Directed by Billy Ramsey
Winners Have Yet To Be Announced: A Song For Donny Hathaway | Directed by Rod Ambrose
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today by Leah Marché | Directed by Erik O'Neal
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange | Directed by Rod Ambrose
Revenge of a King by Herb Newsome | Directed by David Hemphill
Revenge of a King by Herb Newsome | Directed by David Hemphill
Revenge of a King by Herb Newsome | Directed by Steve Broadnax
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today by Leah Marché | Directed by Rod Ambrose
STAGE / FILM WORK
BlackPoet Ventures
Big I Entertainment
Black Theatre Troupe
BlackPoet Ventures
Glendale Community College
Suzan-Lori Parks (writer)
Michael Traylor (director)
Iris Huey (writer/director)
Pearl Cleage (writer)
Michael Traylor (director)
Leah Marché (writer)
Erik O'Neal (director)
Billy Ramsey (director)
Rod Ambrose (director)
Billy Ramsey (arranger/director)
Rod Ambrose (director)
Adrienne Kennedy (writer)
Michael Traylor (director)
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
Phoenix Center for the Arts, Phoenix AZ
The Gift
A Song For Coretta
Playhouse on the Park at the VIAD, Phoenix AZ
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today
Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today
Glendale Library "Live At The Library," Glendale AZ
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today
Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix AZ
Conversations in the Key of Life
Tucson AZ
Phoenix College, Phoenix AZ
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today
Phoenix College Dome Room, Phoenix AZ
Funny House of a Negro
Glendale Community College, Glendale AZ
June/July 2014
May 2012
January 2012
April 2009
February 2008
February 2007
October 2006
April 2006
Spring 1996
Prunes and Prisms
Victim 5
Zora Evans
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Mother
APPEARANCES / PRESENTATIONS
Caffeine Corridor
Four Chambers Press
Phoenix Art Museum
GreenBiz Forum
Perry Allen/
This Could Be PHX
South Arts
ASU Performance in the Borderlands
Arizona Storytellers Project (Arizona Republic)
ASU Performance in the Borderlands
TEDx Phoenix/Scottsdale
Civil Disobedience at ASU
Ignite Phoenix 10
Arts & Business Council of Phoenix "New Artitude" Annual Breakfast
Stand For Darfur
Arizona Informant Foundation
Bethune Middle School
ASU Downtown
Phoenix College
26th Annual Governor's Arts Awards
American Cancer Society
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration
African American Men of Arizona State University
October 2015
October 2015
August 2015
February 2015
February 2015
October 2014
September 2014
June 2014
May 2014
February 2014
March 2012
September 2011
May 2011
August 2010
April 2010
June 2010
February 2008
February 2008
September 2007
April 2007
April 2007
January 2007
2006-2010, 2014
2006-2010
Spoken Word
Spoken Word/Interview
Introduction/Discussion
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Opening Piece
Bocafloja Concert
Storytelling
Storytelling
Spoken Word
Spoken Word/Presentation
Spoken Word
Presentation
Opening Piece
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Invocation
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
Caffeine Corridor Poetry Series
The {9} Lounge, Phoenix AZ
Four Chambers Press: A Retrospective
Phx Arts + Culture @ 30 Festival, Phoenix AZ
We/Here Series: Do The Right Thing film screening
"It's Not Easy Being Green"
Special performance by Convergent Arts collective
JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort & Spa, Phoenix AZ
The Lyceum Pop-Up
Downtown Phoenix AZ
"BPV Presents..."
Athens Library, Athens GA
"Tick Tick Boom"
Herberger Theater Center, Phoenix AZ
Theme > Entrepreneurship Night
Central Arizona Supply Showroom
Theme > "It's A Matter of Life and Death: Stories of Beginnings and Endings"
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix AZ
"Open Season"
Black Power Mixtape film screening
Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix AZ
"Starving Artists/Hustlin' & Flowin'"
GateWay Community College, Phoenix AZ
"Rebels With A Cause"
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
"So You THINK You Can Design?"
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale AZ
"Wake Up"
Wyndham Hotel, Phoenix AZ
"Build Hope: Stand For Darfur"
Dobson High School
"We A Blues People"
Open for The World Is My Home: The Life & Times of Paul Robeson play
South Mountain Community College, Phoenix AZ
Theme > Heritage Day
Bethune Middle School, Phoenix AZ
Theme > "Health Disparities in our Community: relfections in Art & Performance"
ASU University Center, Phoenix AZ
Theme > Constitution Day
Phoenix College, Phoenix AZ
"Innovation/If I Could Change The World"
Phoenix AZ
"Relay For Life"
Phoenix AZ
South Mountain Community College, Phoenix AZ
Eastlake Park, Phoenix AZ
Welcome Black Poetry Explosion
Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Collaborations
Athens GA
Glendale AZ
Phoenix Metro
Tempe AZ
Tempe AZ
Phoenix AZ
Phoenix AZ
Scottsdale AZ
Avondale AZ
Las Vegas NV
Phoenix AZ
Las Vegas NV
Phoenix AZ
October 2014
April 2014
February 2009
January 2008
January 2008
December 2007
May 2007
February 2007
February 2007
February 2007
January 2007
November 2006
October 2006
South Arts
Glendale Public Library
Creative Space
Arizona Theatre Company
National Pan-Hellenic Council of ASU
ASU MLK Student Rally
Free Arts of Arizona
Target Corporation
Regional Meeting
Scottsdale Knowasis Teen Center
The Worthy Institute/Sistas of AZ
Estrella Mountain Community College
Community College of Southern Nevada/Dr. Camilla Westenberg
Phoenix College MLK Youth Celebration
National Council on Black American Affairs/Dr. Camilla Westenberg
The Worthy Institute/Sistas of AZ
South Mountain Community Center
Page vs Stage Workout
"Let's R-A-P! Discovering Rhythm And Poetry"
Artist Residency
A Raisin In The Sun Poetry Slams
at Barnes & Noble Booksellers
"If You Could Change The World"
"If You Could Change The World"
"The Mis-Education of Hip Hop"
"I Heart Target"
"The History & Art of Slam Poetry"
"Antidotes For Change"
7th Annual Black HIV/AIDS Day
"Hiphop: Take A Good Look"
"Let's Go Back"
"Hiphop Culture: Looking Back To Move Forward"
"Cycles & Circles of Domestic Violence"
Unite 4 Life Teen Lock-In
Solo Work
"Communication: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"
Blueprint For Womanhood
Rites of Passage Transformational
Phoenix AZ
March 2007
GRANTS / AWARDS / DISTINCTIONS
DC Black Theatre Festival
South Arts
Glendale Public Library
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Phoenix New Times
Scottsdale Cultural Council
Phoenix College Alumni Association
Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette
Phi Beta Kappa
Accepted Script - Winners Have Yet To Be Announced: A Song For Donny Hathaway
Grant - Artist Residency
(BlackPoet Ventures)
Athens GA | Atlanta GA
Grant - Creative Space Artist Residency
"Let's R-A-P! Discovering Rhythm And Poetry"
(BlackPoet Ventures)
Glendale AZ
Grant - Arizona Art Tank
(SendAPoet Project)
Grant - Arizona Art Tank
Hashtag Change The World (BlackPoet Ventures)
3-Year Seed Grant
(BlackPoet Ventures)
Finalist - 3rd Annual Big Brain Awards
Grant - Cool Like That: A Tribute To Miles Davis for the BioRhythMic Series
(BlackPoet Ventures)
Award - Best Campus Event of the Year
EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today (BlackPoet Ventures)
Winner - Scholastic Journalism
Yearbook Award
Scholarship
March 2015
October 2014
April 2014
January 2014
September 2013
March 2013
2010-2011
April 2006
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