Self Portraits (Deluxe)
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Written and Performed by Phillip Howze
Directed by Dominique Rider
(DELUXE), the newest work by playwright Phillip Howze, directed by Dominique Rider.
An inventive, impressionistic new work that blurs the lines between personal and collective memory, refracting and reframing how we spectate in America. Suspended at the edge of confrontation and contemplation, when put together these discursive theatrical portraits – performed in promenade – invite an expansive vision of Blackness and civil society in today’s age, while also opening new portals into the possibility of our greater, shared and speculative futures.
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Phillip Howze
Playwright, Performer, & Video
Philip Howze is a writer and theater maker whose works have been developed and produced across the country including at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theater Workshop, PRELUDE Festival, Public Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Sundance Institute Theater Lab and Yale Cabaret. Howze’s playwriting debut, Frontieres Sans Frontieres, premiered in an extended, sold-out engagement at the Bushwick Starr and was named one of the "10 Best Theatrical Productions of the Year" by New York Magazine/Vulture. He’s writing new play commissions for the American Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center, and he was recently appointed the inaugural Associate Senior Lecturer at Harvard University’s Theater, Dance & Media program. His new collection Rarities & Wonders: Plays is available from Tripwire Harlot Press. (www.tripwireharlot.com)
Performer, 1st Violin Clover St Hubert, Musician Christian Jones, Performer, 2nd Violin Aris Stevenson
Composer & Music Director Devon Gates , Scenic Brittany Vasta, Costumes Nia Safarr Banks, Lighting Masha Tsimring, Sound Kathryn Ruvuna, Video Phillip Howze, Stage Manager Sydneii Colter, Assistant Stage Manager Maia Tivony, Line Produced by Ayana Parker Morrison
Presented in association with JACK
SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE) is made possible with generous support from The Jerome Foundation, The MAP Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Portions of SELF PORTRAITS have been previously developed, presented, or iterated at BRIC Arts-Media, Lincoln Center, PRELUDE Festival, and Performance Space New York.