(BPRW) Call for Entries: Golden Globe-winning actress, playwright, and activist Regina Taylor’s the black album.mixtape. Project
Cash Prizes to be Awarded to Collaborators who Create Works Based on 2020’s Defining Moments in History
(Black PR Wire) As a backdrop to the historic significance of 2020 outlined by COVID-19 and social protest, Regina Taylor—the Golden Globe-winning actress, playwright, and activist—in partnership with Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Meadows School of the Arts, is looking for submissions for the black album.mixtape. undertaking till May 3, 2021.
Taylor’s the black album.mixtape. invitations collaborators from numerous fields and in a wide range of media to discover and deal with the questions on the present second on a nationwide and worldwide scale: Where are we, how did we get right here, and how can we think about and arrive at a greater future? Entries are being solicited from college students, professionals and the group in the arts, expertise, science and activism. Works can embody video, music, audio, photos, monologues, photographs, designs, or textual content, interviews or self-interviews. All submissions will likely be thought of for $500 money awards that will likely be introduced by Regina Taylor and a panel of judges throughout a culminating digital Block Party on May 11, 2021. Works can embody video, music, audio, photos, monologues, photographs, designs, or textual content, interviews, or self-interviews. Submit entries here.
“I launched this project as a platform for crucial conversations during this time of racial reckoning,” stated Taylor. “The black album explores how we as artists advance social justice in our work, and how we imagine, teach, and create in the face of COVID-19. The collaboration is designed to help all of us—performers and the public, seasoned arts leaders, and new students—to realize the power we hold within ourselves and our ability to press forward for justice.”
The undertaking started final fall with a efficiency written by Taylor and carried out by SMU college students: the black album. 2020. resistance —a extremely personalised assortment of vignettes and moments that look at the query of What It Is To Be Black at a traditionally vital second.
the black album.mixtape. Award Categories-Youth and Adult
- The Artist Mixtape Award
For excellence in the classes of artwork, music, theatre, dance, or different inventive arts.
- The Innovation Mixtape Award
- For excellence in the inventive utility of expertise.
- The STEM Mixtape Award
For excellence in the areas of science, medication, structure/engineering, or different math- or science-related subject. - The Activist Mixtape Award
For excellence in the areas of social justice, regulation, or environmental and different types of activism.
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About Regina Taylor
Actor/director/playwright/educator/activist Regina Taylor is a Meadows Distinguished Visiting Artist and the Andrew W. Mellon playwright-in-residence at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the latter a three-year appointment by means of the National Playwright Residency Program established by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and HowlRound Theatre Commons.
Her playwright credit embody Bread (Edgerton Award, WaterTower Theatre); Crowns (4 Helen Hayes Awards, together with Best Director); Oo-Bla-Dee (Steinberg-ATCA award); The Trinity River Plays (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award); cease.reset. (Signature Theatre Residency 5); and Drowning Crow (Manhattan Theatre Club, Biltmore/Broadway). Taylor can also be writing new performs for Audible and The Old Vic.
In fall 2017 Taylor was the Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre (a visitor school place) at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. She is a creative affiliate of Goodman Theatre and is its most produced playwright.
Taylor is featured in HBO’s Lovecraft Country (producers Jordan Peele, J. J. Abrams and Misha Green) and in Netflix’s All Day and a Night starring Jeffrey Wright and Ashton Saunders and directed/written by Joe Robert Cole (author for Black Panther), and visitor stars on Council of Dads (NBC), The Red Line (producer Ava DuVernay, CBS) and The Good Fight. For her tv position as Lily Harper in I’ll Fly Away, Taylor acquired a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress, three NAACP Image Awards and two Emmy Award nominations. Her different tv roles embody The Unit. Taylor was the first African American lead in Masterpiece Theatre’s Cora Unashamed, starred as Anita Hill in HBO’s Strange Justice (Gracie Award), and was featured in A Good Day to Die starring Sidney Poitier. She has co-starred in USA Network’s Dig and visitor starred in Elementary and The Blacklist. Taylor’s movie credit embody Saturday Church, The Negotiator, Courage Under Fire, Clockers and Lean on Me. Taylor was additionally the first Black girl to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway.
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