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Alien Abduction
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Fire Water
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Tubman Phone
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Comic Book Killer
〰️ Alien Abduction 〰️ Fire Water 〰️ Tubman Phone 〰️ Comic Book Killer
How many ways can we get free? And what beings, entities, or fantastical occurrences could help?
“30 Ways To Get Free”, in its final form, will be an anthology of 30 microplays that use speculative fiction, science fiction, futurism, fantasy, African mythology, and revisionist history to imagine Black Liberation as tangible in the now. The collection of microplays conceive of “Black Liberation” as a generative space, whereby the concepts of both Blackness and Liberation are expansive and exploratory versus static and defined. It is of critical importance to me that the portrayal of Blackness is rich, nuanced, varied, untraumatized, active, empowered, unopposed, joyous, and unlimited.
To date, selected pieces from this series have been published, commissioned, film produced and screened, recorded as audio plays by arts organizations such as The Catastrophic Theatre, The Greater Good Theater Commission with Latinx Playwrights Circle and Pregones PRTT, BLMHTX, The Acentos Review, The Fresh Arts SpaceTaking Residency, and The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston.
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Literature.
“Tubman Phone” as published in The Acentos Review. Special Issue June 2020. “Black and Glorious: Towards Liberation”.
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Commissioned Play.
“Alien Abudction”; “DNA Sankofa/Answer The Bloodline. The 2020 commissioned plays were presented at the first annual Greater Good Theater Festival produced by the Latinx Playwrights Circle (LPC) and Pregones Theater/PRTT. The Zoom-produced play festival was streamed online and the plays live in digital archives.
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Short Films.
“Alien Abduction”; “Fire Water”; “Tubman Phone”. The Catastrophic Theatre proudly presented the premiere of 30 Ways To Get Free, written by Candice D’Meza and directed by Nate Edwards (Tobe Ngwigwe; Doja Cat). 30 Ways To Get Free is a series of three Afrofuturist micro-films that position abolition and liberation through the lens of science fiction. By exploring the worlds of spontaneous combustion, mermaids, trans-dimensional cell phones, and alien abductions, the films center on three of an unlimited number of ways Black people may triumphantly enter a free new world of their own imagining.
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Radio Play.
“Water Snake Deliverance”. Independently produced. Sound designer, Sean Ramos. Actors: Candice D’Meza, Alice Gatling.