SEED By Radha Blank
August 4th through August 19th, 2010
MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT, RADHA BLANK :
“Riveting... immediately alive” is how The Voice describes Radha’s one-woman-b-ball- dramedy Kenya (Dixon Place, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Public Theater’s New Works Now, HERE; awards: New Professional Theatre’s Annual Writers Award for Best Script, The NY Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship and Nickelodeon’s Writers Fellowship). Radha was chosen to form The Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2008) where she created the satire Nannyland. Her latest solo project Happy.Flower.Nail was developed at the Voice and Vision 2009 Envision Retreat at Bard College. In 2009, Radha was nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize in Playwriting and The Lark’s PONY Fellowship. With a commission from the CityParksFoundation, she created American Schemes, three one-acts to be presented in free performances in New York parks in July. SEED marks the inaugural production of Project Classics and of Blank as a playwright.
Radha Speaks About SEED's roots
Having my play Seed staged at Harlem School of the Arts Theater is a full circle moment for me. It marks a return to my early stages as a writer, teaching artist, and member of this community. But it’s especially poignant because this production of Seed with Classical Theater of Harlem marks my crossing a threshold from being an aspiring artist to becoming a produced playwright. What better place to make my debut than in Harlem?
Future Classics Reading Series
VSOP (Very Special Old Preserve)
by Laurence Holder
Directed by
Mansoor Najee-ullah and Rony Clanton
June 16th, 7pm
A word from Wendell 
Pierce, star of the
HBO drama "The Wire":
"My humble request: Support Classical Theatre of Harlem. Please share my full endorsement of them as they shift gears in the new decade!"
