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YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

May 29 & 30 @ Factory Theatre
More details to come soon!

Cast
Bola Aiyeola – Grandma Rania
Megan Legesse – Adama

Creative Team
Abigail Whitney – Director, Co-creator
Ghislan Sutherland-Timm – Set Designer, Co-creator
Nála Simone Lendor – Costume Designer, Co-creator
Stephon Smith – Sound Designer, Co-creator
Lilian Adom – Lighting Designer (YGB 24/25)
Meryem Alaoui – Movement Consultant
Mwahib Azreg – Cultural Consultant
Robert Harding – Stage Manager
Aden Altamirano – Production Manager / Technical Director
Curtis Whittaker – Head Carpenter
ciaran brenneman – Head of Props

Creation Residency d’bi.young anitafrika

Young Gifted and Black is generously sponsored by:

Obsidian Theatre’s Season Sponsor: TD Bank Group;

Program Sponsors: Catapult/Rideau Hall Foundation, Scotiabank, Toronto Arts Council Strategic Fund and the Foundation for Black Communities

Venue Sponsor: Factory Theatre, Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)

About Young, Gifted, and Black

Young, Gifted, and Black is Obsidian Theatre’s arts training program dedicated to supporting Black theatre practitioners in non-performance disciplines. This four-month intensive explores Black diaspora theatre and performance aesthetics. YGB practitioners will benefit from mentorship, masterclasses, and apprenticeships, with the program culminating in a collective-creation devised, directed, and designed by the YGB cohort.

About Obsidian Theatre

Obsidian is Canada’s leading culturally specific theatre company. Our threefold mission is to produce plays, to develop playwrights and to train emerging theatre professionals. Obsidian is passionately dedicated to the exploration, development, and production of the Black voice.

Obsidian produces plays from a world-wide canon focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the works of highly acclaimed Black playwrights. Obsidian provides artistic support, promoting the development of work by Black theatre makers and offering training opportunities through mentoring and apprenticeship programs for emerging Black artists.