Black Playwrights Gathering
Black Playwrights Gathering
The Black Playwrights Gathering brings together Black playwrights with the intention of fostering genuine interactions and creating space for community building.
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Date / time / place
- JUNETEENTH
- Wednesday, June 19, 2025
- Los Angeles, CA
About the Program
Hosted by Aleshea Harris and Dominique Morisseau, the Black Playwrights Gathering is a space uniquely created for and by Black playwrights. We plan to gather in a way that defies status and allows us all to be together authentically.
The gathering will be a day of introductions, leisure, laughter, and layin’ back. You know we’ll be eatin’ and some of us will be playing games; there will be rich conversations and time for dreaming and making new friends.
For inquiries regarding this offering, please contact us at Programs@artEquity.org.
Facilitators
Aleshea Harris
Playwright / Actress
John Doe
Playwright / Storyteller
The Inspiration
Talking Back, Season 2, Episode 1, excerpt: the conversation that inspired the Black Playwrights Gathering
A quick look at Black Playwrights Gathering
The Black Playwrights Gathering is in collaboration with WACO Theater Center.
This event is also supported in part by American Conservatory Theater; Black Realities; Center Theatre Group; Dramatists Guild Foundation; Ford Foundation; New York Theatre Workshop; Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts; and the Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation.
Thank You to Our Supporters
artEquity provides the tools, resources, and training to support the intersection of art and activism. Our work is made possible in part by the California Arts Council, the Dramatists Guild Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Barbara and Amos Hostetter, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the JKW Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, Venturous Theatre Fund of the Tides Foundation, and a growing community of individuals and organizations across the globe.