The Classical Theatre of Harlem

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem, in partnership with The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, offers a new play development series called “Future Classics.”

CTH’s Future Classics Program promotes emerging playwrights, in particular African-American writers, whose work is persistently underrepresented on American stages. The program supports work in early stages of development through a series of workshops with the provision of professional actors and directors.  The program culminates with a free public reading at The Schomburg Center, giving playwrights a chance to hear their work theatrically and share the experience with a responsive audience.
 
CTH is most interested in work that speaks to an expansive view of the classic, responds to classical subjects and themes, addresses the history of African-Americans, or focuses on the history, culture and community of Harlem.

CTH’s Future Classics Program is supported in part by The Ford Foundation.

Otis Ramsey-Zöe is pleased to join The Classical Theatre of Harlem as Future Classics Administrator. Additionally, he is a freelance dramaturg and Series Editor for NoPassport Press’ Dreaming the Americas Series. As a dramaturg, he has developed new works with such organizations as The Sundance Institute, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Center Stage, White House Historical Association and Black Women Playwrights’ Group and by such writers as Tarell McCraney, Noah Haidle, Kirsten Greenidge and Jerome Hairston. Previously, he was Literary Manager and First Look Coordinator at Center Stage and an Allen Lee Hughes Dramaturgy and Literary Senior Fellow at Arena Stage. Mr. Ramsey-Zöe holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA from University of Notre Dame.

Future Classics Reading | June 16 , 2010 at 7pm

VSOP (Very Special Old Preserve)
By Laurence Holder

The Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.) ADMISSION IS FREE

Starring and codirected by: Mansoor Najee-ullah and Rony Clanton

Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell… giants of bebop… the two jazz pianist… in the midst of the oddities and peculiarities of their relationship… VSOP takes an odyssey to the nightclub where they will play.

Laurence Holder is the author of many jazz plays and VSOP is the prequel to MonknBud, a three-character play featuring Monk, Nellie Monk and Bud, and the one-character Monk, which explores Monk’s inner thoughts about what he was doing in the music.

Other jazz plays include Hot Fingers (about Jelly Roll Morton), Scott Joplin, Bird (about Charlie Parker), Ethel Waters, The Miles Davis Quintet, The Gospel According To Max Roach, Hot Snow (about Valiada Snow) and Swee'Pea and The Duke (about Lena Horne, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn).

Mr. Holder has won writing awards for Political Theatre, AUDELCO Awards for M: the Mandela Saga (about Winnie and Nelson Mandela) and for When The Chickens Came Home To Roost (about Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X). He runs Writing Workshops for the New Federal Theatre and The Negro Ensemble Company.

Mansoor Najee-ullah is thankful to God and humbled by the opportunity to perform and co-direct a play by such a stellar playwright as Mr. Laurence Holder. Mansoor holds a BA in Theatre and Communication from Queens College/CUNY, an MA in Theatre Education from New York University and a Certificate of Advance Graduate Study in Educational Administration and Supervision from the Leadership Academy at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is now the Director of Academic Foundations at Hudson County Community College. He has taught in the Theatre and Speech Departments at the University of South Carolina, Pace College, Bronx Community College/CUNY, Medgar Evers College/CUNY and the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY. He has directed theatre at New York University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Brown University and many Off-Off-Broadway theatres and community theatres in New York City. Within the New York City Department Education, he taught Drama and Social Studies for thirteen years at William J. O’Shea Middle School. In the area of arts administration he was the District Arts Coordinator for District 9 Bronx and the Regional Arts Supervisor for Region 10 in Manhattan. He performed on Broadway in The Might Gents, G.R. Point, Mule Bone and Sweet Bird of Youth starring Lauren Ball. He performed Off-Broadway at Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre in The Forbidden City, at Manhattan Theatre Club in The Sirens and In The Wine Time, and at the Ensemble Stage Theatre where he created the role of Marvin X in Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam directed by Woodie King Jr. On television he has appeared in Oz, Guilding Light, As The World Turns and All My Children.

Rony Clanton marked his Off-Off-Broadway directorial debut with Amiri Braka’s The Toilet. He originated the role of Foots in the original Off-Broadway production. Hampton is a product of The Henry Street Settlement, Harlem Youth Opportunity Unlimited (HARYOU Act) and Robert Hooks Group Theatre Workshop. His films appearances include The Cool World, The Education Of Sonny Carson, The Killing Zone, Def By Temptation, Rappin, Juice, Devil’s Advocate, and The Third Miracle. Mr. Clanton is a recipient of the TOR Award and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.  

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Future Classics Reading | April 21 , 2010 at 7pm

The Trazana Beverley Project: King Lear
By William Shakespeare

The Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.) ADMISSION IS FREE

Directed by Trazana Beverley

Featuring Trazana Beverley as King Lear With Beverley Prentice, Georgia Southern, Robin LeMon, Sheldon Woodley, Kim Sullivan, Jarde, Lelund Durond Thompson, Arthur Barto, Brian Coats, Gabe Portunando, Leon Brown, Don Arrup and Chris Triana

            Fool:   Come hither, mistress.  Is your name   

             Goneril?

            Lear:   She cannot deny it.

            Fool:   Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool. 

TRAZANA BEVERLEY won the 1976 Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production of for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf.  She is recognized as one of our country’s great actresses and is also a master acting teacher, director and singer.  Highlights of her distinguished acting career are Mother Courage, A Raisin In The Sun, Flyin’ West, Peer Gynt, Constant Star, Macbeth, Medea and King Lear.  She has appeared in the films Beloved, Resurrection and Carolina Skeletons and Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies. In addition, she is creator of the one-woman show The Spirit Moves and her cabaret act The Music In Me.  Her recent regional directing credits include Spell#7, Native Son, In The Blood, From The Mississippi Delta, Pecong, The Trojan Woman, Salome, Yellowman, The Bluest Eye and Blue Door.  Her work has been sighted in American Theater Magazine and Towards a Poor Theatre.  Among her honors are Mademoiselle Woman Of The Year, The Audelco Recognition Award and The Theater World Award.

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April 21, 2010, 7:00 PM
May 19, 2010, 7:00 PM
June 16, 2010, 7:00 PM

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Future Classics Reading | MARCH 17 , 2010 at 7pm

Cherokee Rose
By Leslie Lee

The Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.) ADMISSION IS FREE

Cast: Count Stovall, Pawnee Sills, Linda Powell, Justice Pratt, Justine Hall, Natasha Williams, Jamal McCree, Ralph McCain, Elizabeth Rolston, and Nancy McDoniel

Directed by Clinton Turner Davis

In the waning days of his life, the patriarch of an affluent African American family, in order to bring closure to a sordid moment in his youth involving a teenage Native American girl and her family, must decide whether to reveal this lingering blemish to his children and bring possible shame to a legacy of huge success, triumph and honor.

Leslie Lee is a Pennsylvania native whose plays include Black Eagles, The First Breeze of Summer (Obie, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Elegy to a Down Queen, Colored People's Time, The War Party, Between Now and Then. Lee’s list of screenplays includes The First Breeze of Summer, Almos' a Man, Go Tell It on the Mountain (American Playhouse),Summer Father.  He is the recipient of an NEA grant in playwriting, Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Grant, Shubert Foundation Playwriting Grant, New York State Council on the Arts grant for playwriting, and playwriting fellowship at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

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March 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
April 21, 2010, 7:00 PM
May 19, 2010, 7:00 PM
June 16, 2010, 7:00 PM

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Future Classics Reading | FEB 17 , 2010 at 7pm

Follow Me To Nellie's
By Dominique Morisseau

The Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.) ADMISSION IS FREE

Cast: Nellie-Lynda Gravatt, Na Rose-Kelly McCreary, Ossie-Warner Miller, Rollo-Michael Genet, Ree Ann-Michelle Wilson, Marla-Nyahale Allie,  Sandy-Andrea Patterson,  Tom Jr.-Adam Couperthwaite, Stage Dir.-LaVonda Elam

Directed by Kamilah Forbes

If you follow the footsteps to Nellie Jackson’s Whorehouse, you may discover a hopeless blues singer looking for a way out, a brave freedom fighter looking for a way in, and a house of wounded women, looking for a new day. In 1955 Mississippi, during the reign of segregation, to get what they’re looking for may cost everything they have…

Dominique Morisseau Detroit native, is a playwright, actress, and arts advocate for social justice. Her list of plays includes: Black at Michigan (Cherry Lane Studio), Retrospect For Life (Hip Hop Theatre Festival), Follow Me To Nellie’s (the Standard), and The Emcee Inquisition (Shooting Star Theatre). She is the recipient of two NAACP Image Awards, a Jane Chambers Award Honor, a Wendy Wasserstein nomination, and a current member of the Public Theatre’s Emerging Writer’s Group.

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February 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
March 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
April 21, 2010, 7:00 PM
May 19, 2010, 7:00 PM
June 16, 2010, 7:00 PM

Did you know that your donations help pay the actors? Please consider a recurring donation of only $10 a month! A small donation indeed makes a big difference. 

 

Future Classics Reading | Jan 20 , 2010 at 7pm

RED ROOSTER
By Pia Wilson
Directed by Justin Emeka

The Schomburg Center 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.) ADMISSION IS FREE

CAST: Crystal A. Dickenson (BROKE-OLOGY), Arthur French (DIVIDING THE ESTATE), Erwin Thomas (SOUTHERN PROMISES), Marjorie Johnson (HOO-DOO LOVE), Ron Simons (MARAT/SADE at CTH), and Daveed Audel.

Joyce, a Hurricane Katrina refugee from New Orleans' Ninth Ward, is living in New Jersey with an elderly man named George.  Joyce and George have an agreement:  She'll take care of him and he'll eventually sign his house over to her as payment.  All is going well for them until George's son comes home and wants the house for himself.  

Pia Wilson (playwright) received a 2009 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and is a member of the 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Full-lengths: Red Rooster (Public Theater, Emerging Writers Spotlight Series); Tree of Life (Red Room Theater); The River Pure for Healing (2008 Resilience of the Spirit play festival)  Short plays and one-acts:  Dressed In Your Dreams (Stagecrafter's New Works Play Festival); Whatever and Delicately (Groove Mama Ink; Looking Glass Theatre, Spring 2008 Writer/Director Forum);  The Rooster Never Crows (OneHeart Productions).

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February 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
March 17, 2010, 7:00 PM
April 21, 2010, 7:00 PM
May 19, 2010, 7:00 PM
June 16, 2010, 7:00 PM

Did you know that your donations help pay the actors? Please consider a recurring donation of only $10 a month! A small donation indeed makes a big difference. 

Future Classics Reading | may 20 , 2009 at 7pm

DIANA SANDS PROJECT
By PJ Gibson
Directed by Reggie Life

The Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.)
ADMISSION IS FREE

When the American actress Diana Sands died in 1973, she left behind a remarkable body of work that spanned stage, screen and television. Ms. Sands played Benethea opposite Sidney Portier in the seminal film A Raisin in the Sun and appeared in groundbreaking TV shows such as I Spy and Julia. As a stage actress she was an original member of the acting company at Lincoln Center, and she broke the then very powerful color barrier in live theatre, playing roles such as Joan of Arc and appearing opposite Alan Alda in The Owl and the Pussycat on Broadway in 1964. Simply put, she achieved a transformational career in the history of American acting. Yet few people today know her real story, perhaps because she was a figure 20 years ahead of her time, living and working well before the terms “color blind” and “non-traditional” casting became common parlance in the theatre industry. Noted author P.J. Gibson (Daughters of the Moon) has been commissioned by CTH to bring this story to the stage. This is the first dramatic treatment of Ms Sands’s life and work, and it is being created with the participation of Ms. Kathryn Leary, her first cousin and head of The Diana Sands Project, an organization dedicated to keeping her memory alive.

P.J. Gibson (playwright) has written over thirty plays, including Long Time Since Yesterday, which had had upwards of sixty productions. Her other works have been presented throughout the United States, Europe and Africa. A published writer, Ms. Gibson also has numerous poems and short stories to her credit. She has been the recipient of many honors including the Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts Seventh Annual "Walk of Fame" where her signature and hand print are imprinted in their Sidewalk of Fame, a Shubert Fellowship, a playwriting grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, two prestigious Audelco Awards, two PSC-CUNY Research Award grants and six playwriting commissions. She has been an Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a proclamation from the city of Trenton, New Jersey and a Key to the City from Indianapolis, Indiana.

Future Classics Reading | April 15, 2009 at 7pm

PRODIGAL BLOOD
By Jaymes Jorsling
Directed by J. Kyle Manzay

The Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.)
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The son/father relationship is extremely complex. Pride, shame, hope and reflection, reverberate, especially if absenteeism has separated that father and son. At ten years old Mau Mau “Moe” Booster witnessed the FBI's Covert Action Programs Against American Citizens (COINTELPRO) gun down his mother. His father Mason (a leader in the Black Panther movement) fled into exile after murderously retaliating against the police and their informant. Having seen Panther fearlessness and rebellion, in addition to rampant drug abuse, recklessness and adultery, Moe has grown into a whirling dervish of anger and confusion. Baggage and secrets that have wreaked havoc on this family come to a combustible head as Mason Booster returns from 20 years of exile to confront his former comrades.

Jaymes Jorsling (playwright) is a native New Yorker with a Bachelors degree (magna cum laude) from CUNY- City College of New York. His screenplays, Bequeathals and Color Blues, have been Sundance Finalists; won at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, and have currently generated interest from several major film production companies. His plays include How Does It Taste, Fake Awakenings, Am I My Brother’s Keeper, Crisis, Trippin’ Over Roots (Classical Theater of Harlem’s 2006/2007 reading series) and Prodigal Blood (Eugene O’Neill 2008 National Playwright’s Conference finalist). As an actor Jaymes has done many voice-overs; and recent performance credits include Law & Order, The Wire, Ty Jones’ Emancipation (Classical Theater of Harlem) and Danny Hoch’s Till the Break of Dawn (Culture Project).

Future Classics Reading | MARCH 18, 2009 at 7pm

THE MASTER SHEPHERD(S) OF HOOKYJOOK
By Yusef Miller
Directed by Lydia Fort

The Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.)
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The Master Shepherd(s) of Hookyjook is a comedic allegory. Literally, the setting is post 9/11 in the fictitious world of Hookyjook. Hookyjook nears destruction as its melodic clock winds down. Cashyabuk, the Master Shepherd, has devised a plan using his well-taught Black sheep. Fearful his brother Doboy, once Master Shepherd, might destroy his plans, Cashyabuk relegates Doboy to standing watch at their gate. But Doboy yearns for a greater purpose. Cashyabuk and Doboy’s quests collide. Will the Mama Black Sheep return in time to save them and Hookyjook? This play serves to pit intuition against reason; leaving the audience to question the functionality of its separate purposes in today’s complex world.

Yusef Miller (playwright) is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellow at Juilliard. He is the recipient of the LeComte Du Nouy Prize for excellence in playwrighting. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. Currently, Yusef is attempting to publish his memoir Fight and produce his plays. Theatre/Dance credits include, Off-Broadway: The Blacks: A Clown Show, The Classic Stage Company; Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, The Classical Theatre of Harlem; The Suitcase Trilogy, Ma-Yi Theater Company; Blue, Cincinnati Playhouse/Geva Theatre; Polk County, Arena Stage; New York Theatre Workshop Playreading Retreat, Director’s Lab 2001, 20002, 2008 Lincoln Center Theater; Thoroughly Modern Millie, LaJolla Playhouse; Boesman and Lena (written/directed Athol Fugard), The Colored Museum, Twelfth Night, Polaroid Stories, Galbraith Theatre (UCSD); Livin’ in the Garden, A Christmas Carol, Oo-Bla-Dee, Ti Jean and His Brothers, Let’s Talk About AIDS and A Woman Called Truth, Alliance Theatre Company. Television credit include, The Education of Max Bickford. Education: BA, English, Morehouse College; Certificate of Acting, Alliance Theater Professional Acting Intern Company; MFA, Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego. Memberships: The Actors’ Fund, The Schomburg Society, AEA, SAG.

Future Classics Reading | February 18, 2009 at 7pm

JUILUS X
By Al Letson, Jr.
Directed by Tracy Jack

The Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.)
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A swift and enthralling political thriller, Julius X portrays a life-and-death struggle for power in 1960s Harlem. Inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius X is set in Harlem in 1965, and amalgamates the lives of Julius Caesar and slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. Playwright/performance poet Al Letson, Jr. weaves the text of Shakespeare with bits of African mythology, the history of the Civil Rights movement, slam poetry, and hip-hop beats into something completely new. The poetry ranges from Shakespearean soliloquies to slam poems utilizing the entire cast. Alive with hip hop dance, performance poetry and stunning actions, Julius X investigates the intoxicating effects of power and the danger of pride.

Al Letson (playwright) established himself as a heavyweight in the Poetry Slam Movement early in his career and has performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, CBS’s Final Four PreGame Show (2004) and commercial projects for Sony, the Florida Times Union, Adobe Software and the Doorpost Film Project. Drawing on his background as a performance poet, Letson weaves spoken word into the fabric of his theatre work. Griot: He who Speaks the Sweet Word (2004), a genre mixing choreopoem was commissioned by the Baltimore Theatre Project. Letson’s teen drama Chalk (2004), features young actors and explores the reality of teenage aggression.  With Chalk, Letson created a new genre of theatre he calls "The Poetical." The format of a Poetical is similar to a Musical but instead of the dialogue leading into musical numbers, characters engage in performance poetry. Letson gives audiences a genuine glimpse inside the world of abject poverty with his solo show, Summer in Sanctuary (2008). Employing storytelling, poetry and multimedia, he chronicles his eye-opening experience working at a summer camp for disadvantaged children.  In 2007 Letson was one of the three finalists out of 1,400 applicants to win the Public Radio Talent Quest.  The Talent Quest is an effort by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to find new hosts and shows.  The pilot State of the Re:Union created from the contest is to be presented to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting for possible funding. Letson continues to tour with his shows and push the boundaries of performance art, never accepting his craft as a static medium. Audiences can look forward to significant themes seamlessly blended with innovative methods in his future projects.  

Future Classics Reading | JANUARY 21, 2009 at 7pm

seed
By Radha Blank
Directed by Niegel Smith

The Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard at 135th Street (2 or 3 train to 135th St.)

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Burnt-out social worker Anne Simpson wants to retire on a high note, when a gifted nine-year-old, Chee-Chee, from the last “projects” in Anne’s gentrified Harlem neighborhood, collides into her life and forces her to confront the shadows of her past. Much to his mother Latonya’s chagrin, Chee-Chee and Anne develop an unconventional friendship, leading to an explosive encounter that threatens Chee-Chee’s future. This compelling new play asks us to confront the class and cultural divides in New York’s most prominent black community.

Radha Blank (playwright) finds inspiration in the voice and rhythm of today’s youth. In Kenya, Radha’s award-winning one-woman "dramedy," a teenaged b-ball phenom confronts womanhood, misogyny and loss through conversations with her dead mother.  The Village Voice called the Hip Hop infused play, ". . . riveting . . .immediately alive." After successful runs at the Womankind Festival, Dixon Place and The Hip Hop Theater Festival, Kenya garnered The New Professional Theatre’s Annual Writers Award for Best Script, The NY Foundation For the Arts Artists Fellowship and Nickelodeon’s 2000 Writers Fellowship.  Radha, a NY Native, has since written for hit Nick Jr. T.V. shows Little Bill and popular musical series, The Backyardigans.  In 2007, Nickelodeon premiered When I Look In The Mirror . . . a series of live action/animated shorts Radha wrote and conceived in celebration of Black History Month. Her latest theatrical project is seed, a “Hip-Hopera” that explores the relationship between a burnt-out social worker, a child genius and his young mother as they converge in a gentrified Harlem. Radha debuted a monologue from seed during Act Now Productions MonoRail Monologue festival where she received standing ovations each night. seed most recently garnered Radha membership in The Public Theater's inaugural Emerging Playwrights Group. Of the more than 700 submissions, twelve writers were chosen to develop new work under the auspices of the renowned and cutting-edge theater. Seeing writing as a path to self-discovery and self-empowerment, Radha has instructed NYC youth in Hip Hop, poetry and playwriting for over twelve years.  She is a student of every child she meets and aims to use her writing to give greater voice to today’s youth.

Niegel Smith (director) is a performance artist, theater director and the Artistic Leadership Associate at The Public Theater in New York City. Whether in the median of a busy highway or on the stage of a conventional theater, Niegel uses performance to explore the boundaries between spectator and participant in communal experiences. With Todd Shalom, Niegel co-conceived and staged THIS WAS THE ONLY PLACE I KNEW TO GO, DECEMBER 31, PROCESSIONAL and FALLOUT, mass rituals in public settings. His New York directing credits include RAINY DAYS & MONDAYS, MAUD – THE MADNESS, ONE FOR THE ROAD, and LIMBS: A PAGEANT. He is Associate Director to Bill T. Jones on the new musical FELA! and has assisted directors Jo Bonney, James Lapine, Kristin Marting, Richard Nelson and George C. Wolfe. Niegel grew up in the North Carolina Piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers.

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Past participants in the program whose work has gone onto to full productions include:

Bashi Rose’s Forteez Bluntz Chickenhedz read as a CTH Future Classic in 2006 and produced at the HipHop Theatre Festival in 2007.

April Yvette Thompson’s Liberty City read as a CTH Future Classic in 2006 and produced at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2008.

Petronia Paley's On the Way to Timbuktu read as a CTH Future Classic in 2007 and produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 2008.

Ty Jones’ Emancipation read as a CTH Future Classic in 2007 and produced at CTH in 2008.

Playwrights interested in participating in CTH’s Future Classics Program should email a cover letter and play description to FutureClassics@ClassicalTheatreofHarlem.org.

Startlingly fresh . CTH reconfirms itself as one of the gutsiest and physically fearless groups around - David Cote, Time Out NY