Join Me for My New Twitter Chat Series!

Unapologetically Flyy:  Conversations on Love, Culture and Movement Building 

Guests: Artists Lisa Strum and Shontina Vernon

Monday, October 19th @ 8pm EST #flyychat

SO excited to announce my new twitter chat series: Unapologetically Flyy: Conversations on Love, Culture and Movement Building.  These monthly chats will feature beautiful human beings who claim their power; take their space and bask in their shine while lighting the way for others. There will be a new topic each month!

For this month's chat, I am so excited to have two phenomenal women who I have known for years to kick off this series: the incomparable Lisa Strum and Shontina Vernon.  

So, what are we talking about? You are probably wondering! Using Langston Hughes' essay, The Artist and the Racial Mountain as a jumping off point, we will explore the role of the Black female artist in the 21st century.

Both of these sistahs are coming off of successful projects and you will no doubt continue to hear more about their incredible work!  Please read their bios and follow their links below and PLEASE join us on Monday October 19th at 8pm EST for our chat!  Follow us using #flyychat!  Stay Flyy! :)

Lisa Strum is an actor/singer/director/ educator/blogger/ producer that has performed at Lincoln Center Theatre, Summer Stage, Signature Theatre, New Federal Theatre, Intiman Theatre, the Obie winning Fire This Time Festival and 48 hours...in Harlem Festival, ACT Seattle, Hansberry Project, and the Fifth Avenue Theatre. She has had a recurring role on LAW & ORDER: SVU and was seen on the television pilot CITIZEN BAINES with James Cromwell. She most recently premiered her one woman show, SHE GON' LEARN, to a sold out house, off-Broadway for the United Solo Festival on 42nd Street. As an educational consultant, she has worked with numerous public schools in New York City, conducted theatre workshops for Teachers College at Columbia University, and has acted as the Theatre Specialist for Abrons Arts Center Summer Arts Camp at HenryStreet Settlement for the last nine seasons. Lisa is an MFA graduate of the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program.

Check out Lisa's blog, The Inner Child Escapes, here and keep up to date with her work on her fan page: www.facebook.com/shegonlearn.

 

SHONTINA VERNON, writer/musician/performer, has written several plays exploring themes that are universal to women. The LA Times called her play, PSYCHOLOGY OF CHROMOSOME X, “surprising, radical, and audacious for its candid exploration of black women and their sexuality.” Vernon is a recipient of this year’s 4 Culture Artists’ Grant, a past recipient of the Louise McKinney Playwriting Fellowship, and was the selected inaugural playwright of the Gurfein-Ntozake Shange Reading Series at New Federal Theater. Her work has been produced by Seattle’s ACT Theatre, the Hansberry Project, SoloNova Festival, the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, and featured at the World Wide Words International Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Her play, A LOVELY MALFUNCTION is currently running at La Mama Theatre in NYC in a collaboration with the esteemed Negro Ensemble Company. Other plays include, ETTA PHIFER’S TESTIMONIAL SHOE KISMET, IN BETWEEN THE ZEBRA’S STRIPES, WOMEN OF THE WILD ROOT, and a solo show titled WANTED – a coming of age tale about forgery, fear, and belonging. She is a National Performance Network touring artist, and a nominated playwright on the 2014 Kilroy’s List.  

Check out Shontina's website here.  And don't forget to visit and "like' her Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/shontinavernon