Set in a recording studio in the 1920’s, over the course of one afternoon, a group of musicians and the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey record several songs as they discuss the questions of prejudice and the problems facing black people in American society.
Colman Domingo
Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows a literate slave and preacher, Nat Turner, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities, Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Logline: A rep-man and his world traveler girlfriend, both stoners and apparently perfect for each other, find themselves in a dangerous love triangle.
“Passing Strange” thesp joins period drama!
Logline: The story of Eugene Allen, an African-American, who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986.
