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SHARON BRIDGFORTH
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Sharon Bridgforth, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, is a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz aesthetic. Her piece, blood pudding, was produced in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. She is the 2010 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty member at The Theatre School at DePaul University. a 2009 Mellon artist-In-Residence in The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Bridgforth is recipient of the 2008 alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize. Her work has been presented around the country at venues including the Walker art Center and La Peņa Cultural Center. Bridgforths work has received support from the NEa Commissioning Program; The NEa/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights; National Performance Network Commissioning Fund; the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media; and the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-arts Production Fund award. Bridgforth is the author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary award-winning the bull-jean stories, published by RedBone Press. She is co-editor of Experiments in a Jazz aesthetic: art, activism, academia, and the austin Project, published summer 2010, University of Texas Press.
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below is a list of Sharon Bridgforth's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Blood Pudding Con Flama Delta Dandi Love Conjure/BluesBlood Pudding
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blood pudding is an inter-disciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of Black people in New Orleans. Through blood memories of a gurl born in Congo Square, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of ancestral Love. In this world the blues is sacred. Narrators are holy. Indigenous people are honored. The drum shapes reality. Jazz conjures/ritual.
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Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre in austin, Texas 1998
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60 min piece one act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 3 musicians (additional casting/or double casting optional)
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con flama is blues in its sensibility and base history. It is jazz in its composition, communal telling and non-linear exploration of time. Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s 1970s, con flama gives glimpse to a Black gurls coming of age, through ancestral passages and her family history. The gurls story unfolds as she makes her way through the cultural landscape of Los Angeles on the bus.
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Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre austin, TX 2000
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about a Black blues/conjur woman musician traveling with a jazz band in the 1940s at the height of the birth of modern jazz.
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The Long Center in austin, Texas 2009
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Freedom Train Productions
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Northwestern University Press anthology, titled solo black woman performance. Eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera. (2012) -
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Play/Drama - - Gay, full length
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 1 GQ (GQ=an identifiably gender queer person)
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Top of PageLove Conjure/Blues
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love conjure/blues considers a range of possibilities of gender expression and sexuality within a rural, Black working class context. It articulates African-American sensibilities, history and oral traditions. Exploring the ways that we have survived; knowing the middle passage, slavery, jim crow and lynching. The piece is a reflection of the ways that Black people have used artistic expression to transmit stories of survival. love conjure/blues re-imagines the traditional role of the Griot. asserts queer as sacred. Claims the blues as ritual-in concert with ancient practices and new creations. In The love conjure/blues Text Installation, the past the present the future the living and the dead co-exist together weaving dreams/Prayers/Love expressed.
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University of Texas, austin 2004
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