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Keith Josef Adkins

KEITH JOSEF ADKINS  

 Nationality:    African American
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Keith Josef Adkins. Keith Josef Adkins' plays include Farewell Miss Cotton (Black Dahlia Theater February 2006), Crossing America (Mark Taper's New Works Festival 2005), Wilberforce (National Black Theater Festival 2005, Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival, Hartford Stage New Voices), The Patron Saint of Peanuts(Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writer's Project 2004), Salt on Sugar Hill(Mark Taper's New Works Festival 2003), Sweet Home (Bay area Playwrights Festival 2003), Cobra Neck (Humana Festival 2003), Hollis Mugley's Only Wish + 2(National Black Theatre Festival 2003, Cleveland Public Theatre, Intersection for the arts, HeRe), On the Hills of Black America (Imua Theatre Company/HeRe, Intersection for the arts, Stanford University), and Play (The Kraine Theater/NYC 2004). Honors include: alliance Theater's august Wilsom Memorial Commission, Mark Taper Forum's Richard Sherwood Distinguished emerging Theater artist award, two Best Play awards at the Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival (Wilberforce and On the Hills of Black America), a Van Lier Fellowship (New York Theater Workshop), and an eST/Sloan Science Foundation playwriting grant.

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below is a list of Keith Josef Adkins's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Cobra Neck         Crossing America         Farewell Miss Cotton         Grey Haired Smoochie With Rufus         Hollis Mugley's Only Wish         Last Saint On Sugar Hill, The         On The Hills Of Black America         Patron Saint Of Peanuts, The         Play         Safe House         Salt On Sugar Hill         Sketches Of Yucca         Sweet Home         Trepidation Nation         Wilberforce

Cobra Neck

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The daughter of a local a pariah is haunted by her mother's courageous acts of truth-telling. When she attends a tupperware party and comes face to face with the scorn of the local community, she decides to scratch away her mother's memory for good -- literally. This piece is part ofTrepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation.

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Crossing America

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Mark Taper's New Works Festival    2005

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Farewell Miss Cotton

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Black Dahlia Theater    Feb 2006

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Grey Haired Smoochie With Rufus

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Hollis Mugley's Only Wish

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National Black Theatre Festival    2003

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Last Saint On Sugar Hill, The

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a family run real estate business is about to land its biggest ever contract. Unfortunately the old fashioned ways of selling practiced by the father look set to scupper the deal

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Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago    Jun 2011

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On The Hills Of Black America

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Patron Saint Of Peanuts, The

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George Washington Carver was a botanist, an artist and a devotee of Booker T. Washington. The Patron Saint of Plants follows Carver on his controversial journey of race and gender to becoming Americas favorite peanut man.

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Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writer's Project    2004

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Play

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The Kraine Theater/NYC    2004

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Safe House

Synopsis:
1843. Kentucky. a free family of color risk everything to help a slave escape to Liberia. The consequences? Their freedom and their lives.

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part of experiments A festival of concert play readings celebrating Black History Month

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La MaMa First Floor Theatre
74a east 4th Street, New York, NY 10004    03 Feb 2012

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Salt On Sugar Hill

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Sketches Of Yucca

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Sweet Home

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Bay area Playwrights Festival    2003

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Trepidation Nation

Synopsis:
We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. To perform the entire collection, click "add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:

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Actors Theatre of Louisville (Louisville, KY, United States)    2003

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80-100 min Drama/Comedy

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Wilberforce

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National Black Theater Festival    2005

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