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ART THAT AWAKENS
Artist Chats 2023-2024
Feb. 2024
Host Magaly Colimon-Christopher chats with DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU – Haitian American playwright of Sunset Baby (Currently at Signature Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway); TONY nominated book writer for Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre).
Twitter and IG: @domorisseau
Photo Credit: Damu Malik
@damu_malik_photo
May 2024
Nadhege Ptah moderates a conversation about the benefits of collaboration between Caribbean arts organization featuring Conch Shell Productions' Haitian American founder/artistic director Magaly Colimon-Christopher and Haiti International Film Festival's founder Jacquil Constant.
December 8, 2023
Dramaturg Jasmeene Francois moderates conversation with playwright Rivka Rivera and director Francisco J. Rivera Rodríguez CSP New Works Fest 2023was presented in partnership with HB STUDIO. (Photo and video credit: Horacio Rojas)
December 9, 2023
Dramaturg Jasmeene Francois moderates conversation with CSP New Works Fest writers Petron B., Magaly Colimon-Christopher, JR Sterling, and Frank Robinson. CSP New Works Fest 2023was presented in partnership with HB STUDIO. (Photo and video credit: Horacio Rojas)
December 9, 2023
Dramaturg Jasmeene Francois moderates conversation with featured artists - director Jenn Susi, and actors Ray Alton, Alyssa Carter, and Greg Seage. CSP New Works Fest was presented in partnership with HB STUDIO. (Photo and video credit: Horacio Rojas)
Saturday August 26th at 12:30pmEST
Featured Guest: Award-winning Martinican filmmaker Alain Bidard.
Co-host: Maëlla Kancel of Karukerament Podcast
Topic: Creating Against All Odds
About Our Guest Artist:
Alain Bidard (aka Alan Bidard) is an award-winning animation film producer/director from the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean. During the two past decades, he has produced and directed animated feature and short films, animated series, documentaries, and live-action films which won more than 200 awards and 400 nominations in festivals worldwide. In 2015, Alain Bidard made history in releasing the first animated feature film ever made in Martinique — “Battledream Chronicle”, awarded by 24 awards and 70 nominations worldwide. Then in 2018, he created the first Caribbean animated TV series for which the pilot won 25 awards and 115 nominations worldwide. In March 2022, Alan Bidard was invited by the Carnegie Hall for the Afrofuturism Festival in New York for a showcase of his works. In May 2022, Alan Bidard was chosen by Her Royal Majesty Queen Angelique Monet of Eti-Oni to receive the Best Animation Film Award in the Artisan Festival International World Peace Initiative AFI in Cannes. As for now, Alain Bidard is the only Caribbean animation film director who won that many recognitions. In December 2021, Alain Bidard released his second animated feature film, “Opal”, an afrofantasy tale which premiered in the Animae Caribe Animation Festival in Trinidad and which has won 160 awards and 220 nominations in festivals worldwide so far. www.alainbidard.com FILMOGRAPHY Anvi Viv (Short film, 2022), Opal (Feature Film, 2021),Reflexion (Short film, 2020), Another House (Short film codirected with Chantal Sacarabany, 2019), The Flight (Short Film, 2018), Battledream Chronicles (Animated series, 2017), Clair Obscur (Short Film, 2017), Battledream Chronicle (Feature Film, 2015), The Martinican Indian Soul (Doc codirected with Chantal Sacarabany, 2013), New World (Short Film, 2007), Phobia (Short Film, 2004), The House of the Kapok Trees (Short Film, 2003), The Bunch of Flowers (Short Film, 2002), Bzz Instinct (Short Film, 2001), Pixies (Short Film, 1999)
About Karukerament Podcast Karukerament is a French & English podcast & blog that features articles about the representation of the Caribbean in cinema and television. www.karukerament.com
Friday, July 28, 2023
Featured Guests: CSP Artist Collective members Gretchen Suarez-Pena, Cris Eli Blak, Rivka Rivera, Tanya Perez, AnJu Hyppolite; as well as CSP Resident Dramaturg Jasmeene Francois, and AD Magaly Colimon-Christopher
Topic: The Journey Toward Decolonizing American Theatre
To learn more about our guest artist go to About Us
Friday, May 26, 2023
Featured Guests: Odley Jean, Nadhege Ptah and Sagine Semajuste
Topic: Haitian & Haitian Diaspora representation in film and television.
More about our guests:
Odley Jean was born, raised and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Odley Jean made her television debut as Dominique Pierre, a leading role in the Netflix original series Grand Army (2020). IG @odley.jean YT @odleyjean2378
Nadhege Ptah's career took off with her portrayal of Lady in Brown in "For Colored Girls." She has since become an award-winning actor/filmmaker, expanding her skill set. Her production company, MAAT Films, is working on numerous projects, many of which have been distributed on major networks like CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, and FOX IG @NADHEGEPTAH YT @NadhegePtah
Sagine Sémajuste is a multi-hyphenate first generation Haitian-Canadian actress, voice actress and dancer. She's been featured in numerous commercials and voiceover projects. her Film and Television credits include: Faith Heist, The Lake, Grand Army and Pretty Hard Cases. IG @SAGINESEMJUSTE YT @saginesemajuste8587
April 19th, 2023 @7pm
Featured artist: Tanya Perez.
Check out our chat with CSP Artist Collective member, Tanya Perez. Tanya is is an NYC Latinx performer, writer & clown specializing in short-form comedy.
Learn more about her creative journey, and her upcoming production of WELCOME TO CLOWN, an adult-friendly play that explores Tanya's exploits as a party clown in New York and Hollywood.
WELCOME TO CLOWNTOWN was developed in the CSP Artist Collective 2022 writer's workshop, and first presented as a work-in-progress at our 2022 CSP New Works Series.
This event was made possible by donations from viewers like you.
February 24, 2023
Anslem Richardson was our featured CSP Artist Chat guest on Feb 24th.
(Topics: His creative journey as a television writer and actor; his upcoming film FRACTAL; the impact of his Trinidadian heritage on his artistic voice.)
Anslem Richardson is an actor, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.He’s a 2021 WGA Award Nominee for Amazon Prime series THE BOYS, a Writers Fellow at HBO Access, and a Screenwriting Fellow at Film Independent. His screenplay BARDOS earned him the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award in Screenwriting. Anslem also received the Independent Feature Project (IFP) Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting for his screenplay THE SUBWAY STORY.
Anslem is currently a writer/producer on THE BOYS.
This event was made possible by donations from viewers like you.
Jan. 27, 2023
Our January 27, 2023 featured artist, Gretchen Suárez-Peña.
(Topics: Her journey from engineer to writer; the impact of her Puerto Rican heritage on her writing; advice to Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora professionals who are considering becoming artists.)
Gretchen is a Puerto Rican playwright who is an MFA candidate in the Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama (Class of 2024). Her musical, Melina: A Steampunk Musical Tragedy was an official selection of the 2020 Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival. Other successes include winning the writer's grant and best play at the 2019 Be Original Festival for her play, Trafficked. Also, winning best full-length play at the 2018 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival for her show Conversations in the Car, and first prize for her short play, Dry Spell, at the 30 by Ninety Theatre’s 2018 Night of One Acts Competition. Gretchen's short play, The Arithmetic of Memory, was produced by Conch Shell Productions as part of Blue Light Series Fall 2020; and her play Moonwalker was featured in Reset Series 2021. She is currently a member CSP Artist Collective. www.gretchensuarezpena.com FB @playsbygretchen
Join us and be inspired by her journey from being an engineer to an MFA in Dramatic Writing candidate.
This event was made possible by donations from viewers like you.
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