Sharon Bridgforth
Alumni Playwright
2009 -- 2016A resident playwright at New Dramatists 2009 - 2016, Sharon is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and a 2016 Creative Capital awardee. Sharon collaborates with actors, dancers, singers and audiences live during performance as she composes moving soundscapes of her jazz/ritual texts. A MAP Fund and National Performance Network Creation Fund recipient, her work has been presented by Links Hall, Pillsbury House Theatre, The New Black Fest and New York SummerStage Festival. She has served in residence at: International Development Exchange; allgo, statewide queer people of color organization; Brown University’s MFA Playwriting Program; University of Iowa’s MFA Playwrights Program; The Theatre School at DePaul University; and The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Sharon is the RedBone Press author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories. Her performance script delta dandi, is published in solo/black/woman, Eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University Press, 2014. Sharon, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Lisa L. Moore are co-editors of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, University of Texas Press. Sharon is one of the subjects in: Matt Richardson’s, The Queer Limit of Black Memory – Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution, The Ohio State University Press; Francesca Royster’s Queering the Jazz Aesthetic: An Interview with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, in Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2013, Journal of Popular Music Studies. and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones’s Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment, The Ohio State Press, 2015. Sharon is currently developing, dat Black Mermaid Man Lady. For more go to: http://sharonbridgforth.com.
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2016 Creative Capital Award
I'm proud to say that I'm a Creative Capital Artist!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!
More HERE.
My Virtual Workshop Series
I am proud to announce that enrollment for my Finding Voice Virtual Workshop Series is open! Details HERE.
River See Theatrical Jazz Performance Installation in Boston
River See Theatrical Jazz Performance Installation
National Performance Network Performance Residency at
The Theater Offensive in Boston
Written and Composed (Live) by Sharon Bridgforth
Featuring: Sonja Parks, Djola Branner, Mankwe Ndosi & Nyx Zierhut.
Performances:
Thursday 11/13/14 - Opening at 7 PM
Friday 11/14/14- Show at 8 PM
Saturday 11/15/14 - Show at 8 PM
Sunday 11/16/14 - Show at 2 PM
River See World Premiere
Set on a juking boat in the Mississippi Delta, River See takes place mid ritual conjuring a world of blues women, queers, deviants and seers. River See is a prayer before the Great Migration to the North, experienced through the heart of SEE a young woman in training.
The Adventures of HoneyPot & Dem
There will be a work in progress table reading of Bridgforth's The Adventures of HoneyPot & Dem
at New Dramatists Friday September 20, 2013
Featuring: Daniel Alexander Jones and Kelly Sloan
Bridgforth, Jones and Sloan will be in the bldg. working
September 16-20, 2013
thanks to support from New Dramatists Creativity Fund, a Mellon Foundation funded program that allows current resident playwrights to explore work and process in creative ways and in the company of chosen collaborators.
River See Premiere
The world premiere of Sharon Bridgforth's River See is set for
June 19-29, 2014 in Chicago, at Links Hall
Featuring: Sharon Bridgforth-Writer/Composer.
Sonja Parks as SEE.
Ensemble TBA.
Details sooncome.
Meanwhile stay tuned at sharonbridgforth.com
River See on USA Projects
Bridgforth's new piece, River See is on USA Projects HERE. ! Set to premiere at Links Hall in Chicago in 2014, River See has received support from the National Performance Network Commissioning Fund, the MAP Fund and the Midwest Arts Touring Fund.
River See Workshop Production
With support from the National Performance Network Creation Fund, Links Hall in Collaboration with University of Chicago Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and The Ellen Stone Bellic Institute For The Study of Women And Gender In The Arts And Media Presents a Workshop Production of River See.
Sharon Bridgforth - Writer/Conductor. Sonja Parks - See.
Additional Performers TBA.
@ UoC Rockefeller Chapel
Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago
5850 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL
3/1/13 @ 7:30pm
Open to the public
(Post-performance reception)
Pillsbury House Theatre Received a 2012 MAP Fund Award for Sharon Bridgforth's, "River See."
The MAP Fund awarded Pillsbury House Theatre (MLPS) a grant in support of Bridgforth's new work, River See!
Contact Info
Sharon Bridgforth
3873 Westside Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90008
512.689-2739
info@sharonbridgforth.com
http://sharonbridgforth.com
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