Exclusive Interview: National Black Theatre’s artistic director Jonathan McCrory “we all have the ability to cultivate a renaissance for our own community”

For over a decade, Harlem-based artist Jonathan McCrory has served as Executive Artistic Director of the groundbreaking National Black Theatre (NBT), though he prefers the term "creative doula". The two-time Obie-winner describes his role as enabling "unseen ideas to be birthed between the parents, which are the playwright and the director, or sometimes the playwright... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: Oscar-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on Ava DuVernay’s Origin “we have made a dangerous film & I delight in that danger”

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and BET nominations, among many other accolades, for her performance as Oracene Price, the mother and tennis coach of Venus and Serena Williams, in Reinaldo Marcus Green's 2021 feature King Richard. More recently, her work was recognized with a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of... Continue Reading →

Exclusive Interview: Sort Of creator & star Bilal Baig on the third & final season of the Peabody Award-winning comedy series

Today sees the return of one the freshest, funniest, and most unassumingly revolutionary series on television, Sort Of, for its third and final season. The GLAAD Award-nominated, Canadian Screen and Peabody-winning comedy is created by its showrunners and executive producers, Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo. Baig also stars in the Toronto-set series as the endearing... Continue Reading →

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