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    All the Dying Voices

    Reginald Edmund
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    Note

    Not yet published. PDF of uncorrected galleys available.

    ALL THE DYING VOICES is the ninth play in the nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection:

    THE DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON
    SOUTHBRIDGE
    IN PROPHET'S HOUSE [not yet available]
    BLOOD IN THE BAYOU [not yet available]
    REDEMPTION OF ALLAH BLACK [not yet available]
    JUNETEENTH STREET [available in manuscript]
    THE ORDAINED SMILE OF SAINT SADIE MAY JENKINS [available in manuscript]
    LAST CADILLAC [not yet available]
    ALL THE DYING VOICES [available in manuscript]

    Play Description

    When a rookie cop is suspected of murdering a young black kid in the neighborhood playground, District Attorney Harrison Just sets out to discover the truth and along the way finds himself standing between an approaching battle between the community he is a part of and the city that he serves.

    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, all characters, except 1 male, are African American)
    Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays, Not Yet Published Tags: African American
    • About the Author(s)
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    Author(s)

    • Reginald Edmund

      Reginald Edmund, is a resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists, and Managing Curating Producer of Black Lives, Black Words International Project. He was previously a 2009-2010, 2010-2011 Many Voices Fellow playwright. Originally from Houston, Texas, he served Artistic Director for the Silver House Theatre, as well as the founder and producer for the Silver House Playwrights Festival and the Houston Urban Theatre Series. Reggie was the inaugural recipient of the Kennedy Center Fellowship at Soul Mountain Retreat as well as the 2009 National Runner-up for the Lorraine Hansberry and Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, and most recently winner of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for his play SOUTHBRIDGE. He received his BFA in Theatre-Performance from Texas Southern University, and his MFA in playwriting at Ohio University under the guidance of Charles Smith. In 2009 He founded the Unit Collective and in 2010 he was named Winner of The Southern Writers Competition, and recognized by TCG as a 2011 Young Leader of Color. His plays, THE ORDAINED SMILE OF SADIE MAY JENKINS, SOUTHBRIDGE, JUNETEENTH STREET, and THE REDEMPTION OF ALLAH BLACK, all part of his nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, were developed at esteemed theaters including Ensemble Theatre of Houston, Silver House Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Moving Arts, Karamu House, Pangea World Theater, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Texas State University Black and Latino Theatre Conference, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, and the Kennedy Center. Most recently he traveled to Colombia to serve as the guest speaker at the Intercolegiado de Teatro de Buenaventura. He is currently Managing Curating Producer of Black Lives, Black Words International Project and a resident playwright for both Chicago Dramatists and Pegasus Theatre — Chicago.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date
    Pages
    ISBN 978088145####

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