#BMPFest 2021: "WHAT IF...?" Trailer - May 27 - 31, 2021

WHAT IF...?
Written by: Cynthia Grace Robinson
Directed by: Mary E. Hodges

Featuring:
Morgan Calhoun
Tonya Pinkins

Trailer: Katiana Weems - Editor and Gabrielle Henderson - Audio
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ABOUT WHAT IF...?
A young woman’s need to fight for justice unleashes her mother’s fears for her child’s life.


WHAT IF...? is the second new work in the 1st Annual Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival, a partnership between Blackboard Plays and PAAL , the Parent Artist Advocacy League.
This play is made possible because of a partnership with Bishop Arts Theatre Center

WHAT IF...? Streams from Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 7pm EST/ 6pm CST / 4pm PST to Monday, May 31st at 7pm EST/ 6pm CST / 4pm PST.

Purchase your Digital pass and Stream at bmpfest.veeps.com

PAAL and Blackboard established #BMPFest to showcase the creative output of Black parent playwrights. They issued an open call in October 2020 for writers who identify as Black parents or caregivers to submit up to 10 pages of work that they would develop into a one-act.

For more information on the festival visit: bit.ly/bmpinfo

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: CYNTHIA GRACE ROBINSON
Plays: DANCING ON EGGSHELLS (The Billie Holiday Theatre); PEOLA'S PASSING (New Perspectives Theatre Company); WHEN NIGHT FALLS (Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist); GOLD STAR MOTHER (EstroGenius Festival); ASCENSION (National Black Theatre Festival; NYC Fringe); THUNDER: A MUSICAL MEMOIR (NYC Fringe); NIGHTFALL (The Fire This Time Festival); ROME IN LOVE (48 Hours in…Harlem); FREEDOM SUMMER (North Carolina Black Repertory Company); IN THIS LIFE (in development); ROSES OF THE WILLAMETTE: A MUSICAL (in development); TV pilot (in development). Awards: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Playwriting Conference (Semi-finalist); Rivers Writers Unit at The Lark; Playwrights of Color Summit/Quick Silver Theater Company; Rising Circle Theater Collective/INKTank Residency; AUDELCO Award Nominee; Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Finalist; Calvin B. Grimes Scholar-in-Residence Inaugural award (NYU); Tribeca All-Access Open Stage Inaugural award; Best New Play IRNE Nominee. Publications: SHE PERSISTED. Monologues from Plays by Women Over 40; The Book of Estrogenius 2012: A Celebration of Female Voices.
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