MOJOAA Performing Arts Company Presents:

Mother Nature & Mother's Day by Dr. Lisa B. Thompson

MOTHER NATURE
In a world where men over 40 years old find themselves rejected and isolated, what will a mother and her adult daughter do with the aging men in their lives?

MOTHER’S DAY is a comedy where Afro-futurism meets motherhood. What happens when a black woman wants to “lean in” but first must find adequate childcare? In this one-act play the search for a nanny for one professional couple forces them to confront a litany of black maternal stereotypes.

Directed by Keyanna Alexander

Cast of Mother Nature
Mother: Phyllis Morrison
Daughter: Alyse James

Cast of Mother's Day
Veronica Taylor-Warren: AhDream Smith
Maurice Warren: Rodney Martin
Big Mama 1850: Robin Marshall
American Mother 2009B: Alexandria Smalls
Afro Queen 3000X: Tyanna West

Theme song by Dasan Ahanu and Scott Warren
Sound Design and Engineering by Only Us Media
Hosted by Monèt Noelle Marshall
Produced by MOJOAA Performing Arts Company
Funded in part by The Black Seed Grant, Manbites Dog Theatre, Cypress Fund, Triangle Community Foundation, United Arts Council and our MOJOAA fam!

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Welcome to our first interview on Red Clay Plays with Dr. Lisa B. Thompson! In this episode we talk about Afrofuturism, mothers who make art, writing the comedy out of pain and, of course, being a Southern Black playwright.

Lisa B. Thompson is an award winning playwright, scholar, and professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three books, Beyond The Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class (University of Illinois Press, 2009), Single Black Female (Samuel French Inc. 2012), and Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues: Three Plays (Northwestern University Press, 2020).

Thompson’s plays, which have been produced off-Broadway, throughout the US and internationally, include Single Black Female (LA Weekly Theatre Award for Best Comedy nominee, Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Award Best Play winner), Underground, (Austin Critics Circle David Mark Cohen New Play Award winner, Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an Original Work nominee), Monroe (Austin Playhouse Festival of New Texas Plays winner), The Mamalogues (Broadway World Regional Awards Best Writing of an Original Work winner), and Dinner (Crossroads Theatre Genesis New Play Festival).

Thompson has received teaching awards from the Texas Exes and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her scholarly and creative work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies; the University of Texas at Austin’s Humanities Institute; the W. E. B. DuBois Research Institute at Harvard University; the Michele R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research; the Five Colleges, the University of California’s Office of the President; Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; Hedgebrook; the Millay Colony for the Arts; and MacDowell.

You can find Dr. Lisa's work at:
https://lisabthompson.com
Twitter: @drlisabthompson
Instagram: @drlisabthompson

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MOJOAA Performing Arts Company Presents:

Ama and Coltrane, Beware Beware! by Raven Monroe
Two young Black people try to survive a night at home, while the Beasty, a dark force that preys on people like them, is on the loose.

Directed by Leroy Ediage

Cast of Ama and Coltrane, Beware, Beware!
Ama: Sa'a Melioge
Coltrane: Jefferson Gichuru
Beasty: Leroy Ediage
Radio: John Ivy

Theme song by Dasan Ahanu and Scott Warren
Sound Design and Engineering by Only Us Media
Hosted by Monèt Noelle Marshall
Produced by MOJOAA Performing Arts Company
Funded in part by The Black Seed Grant, Manbites Dog Theatre, Cypress Fund, Triangle Community Foundation, United Arts Council and our MOJOAA fam!

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