The Movement Theatre Company Ladder Series: Black Boy & the War February 10, 2011

TMTC returns to HSA after the critically acclaimed production of Bintou. The premiere of Bintou was
hailed by The New York Times as "talent that off off broadway at it's best can nurture."
A man who hears war in his dreams… A woman caught in silence… Black Boy & The War delves into the complicated and inextricable connection between the Black Man and the Black Woman. With the constant push and pull of love and society's power to make and unmake one's identity this piece begs to question, “where will this Black Boy have to go to find his name?”
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and holds masters degrees from The University of Edinburgh and New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
She is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting
Award and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Playwriting Award. Her work has been developed at The Public Theater's Festival of New Works. Director Jesca Prudencio is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is a 2010 directing recipient for the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange. Jesca is a Company Member of TMTC where she conceived and directed Traces of Eruption for the Ladder Series. She is the Education Coordinator and Production Associate at Ping Chong & Company where she has assisted Ping Chong on various projects featured at The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival and BAM's 2010 Next Wave Festival.
The Movement Theater Company’s Ladder Series is a development workshop dedicated to the creation of bold new theatrical works through dialogue and collaboration. Artists whose proposals are selected for the series are provided with an artistic team, rehearsal space and the full support of the TMTC Executive Board and membership. The workshop process culminates in a public showing.

Official Website: http://www.themovementtheatrecompany.org