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MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH
Nationality: USAemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: MAPP International Productions represented by Cathy Zimmerman
Marc Bamuthi Joseph returns to actors Theatre after premiering the break/s during the 2008 Humana Festival. He is the artistic Director of the HBO documentary Brave New Voices and an inaugural recipient of the United States artists Fellowship. Premiering at Yerba Buena Center this fall, and visiting the Walker Arts Center and the Brooklyn academy of Music among other sites, his performance piece, red black and GREEN: a blues, engages the eco-equity movement in Black neighborhoods across America. In 2011, he premieres a commissioned libretto for the Atlanta Ballet, and is co-writing a narrative score for the Chicago Jazz Ensemble with amiri Baraka in 2012. Bamuthis Word Becomes Flesh was re-mounted in December 2010 as part of the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces series, and will tour throughout North America and Hawaii through 2012.
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Break/S, The Chicago, Sudan Word Becomes FleshBreak/S, The
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Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together All eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd Annual cycle of world premiere productions staged At Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays And four ten-minute plays represent An exceptional Array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre
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This short choreopoem uses movement and verse to unlock a mothers connection between an East African genocide and a Midwestern homicide. Chicago, Sudan is the first in a series of works that culminate in red, black and GREEN: a blues, which theatrically navigates African Americas engagement with the global environmental movement.
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part of the 2011 Humana Festival.
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Actors Theatre Of Louisville, KY, USA >>> 02 Apr 2011
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in Humana Festival 2011: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Inc - New York (2012) >>> 978-0-9819099-8-1
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Presented as a series of letters to an unborn son, Word Becomes Flesh confronts fatherhood in urban communities and the mythology of the black male body - from cotton field to athletic field and all the spaces in between. Marc Bamuthi Joseph reinvents his 2003 solo performance for a new generation with an ensemble cast, using spoken word, music, and contemporary and hip-hop dance.
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Created & Directed By: Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project
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Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 05 Jan 2012
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003 05 Jan 2012
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