THE DRAMA OFFSTAGE

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created By emma van lare Kadeem Ali harris

WE’RE ON A MISSION

THE DRAMA OFFSTAGE is an interview-based comedy show archiving our current Black theater legends through fun and hijinks.

By highlighting Black theater professionals and their stories, our platform bridges the gap created by “The Great White Way” and invites Black audiences into a more accessible theater space.

We are a joyous jubilation of all things Black theater

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CO CREATOR SENIOR PRODUCER Emma Van Lare is a first generation Ghanaian American actor and writer Recent performer credits include Law Order and 6x tony nominated Broadway production of Ain t No Mo She was a finalist in the 2021 MACRO x The Black List Feature Screenwriter Incubator and was an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Free The Arts Shay Fellowship for writing As a storyteller she uses her unique perspective as a person of two cultures to orient her work She is interested in exploring the lost histories of Black people in an effort to expand the Black imagination and by extension our Afro future She holds a B S in Radio Television Film from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Acting from The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco emmavanlare com lifeas emmashika

CO CREATOR SENIOR PRODUCER KADEEM ALI HARRIS is an actor director producer from the Bronx New York He recently performed in the world premiere of Suzan Lori Park s Sally and Tom at the Guthrie Theater Broadway Thoughts of a Colored Man Regional Theater American Conservatory Theater Berkeley Rep Cal Shakes and Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Kadeem is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater s MFA program and Tisch School of the Arts for Drama He has produced the 2016 Bay Area Artist Festival with the premiere of Obie Award winner Aleshea Harris play CRACK RUMBLE FLY You can see him recur as Brandon in the hit Amazon Prime series Harlem starring Megan Good and Season 3 of City on a Hill kadeEMALIHARRIS

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Adrianna Mitchell is a Bronx based actor and multi hyphenated creator from Atlanta GA A proud HBCU graduate of Spelman College she went on to receive her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater Adrianna was most recently seen on Broadway in the Tony nominated Pulitzer prize winning play Fat Ham in the role of Opal which she originated at The Public Theater She s also worked Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and New York Theater Workshop In 2020 Adrianna booked a series regular on ABC s network pilot Harlem s Kitchen but you can see her work as a season recur on Season 4 of Snowfall FX Other television credits The Blacklist NBC Little America Apple TV Evil Bull and The Good Fight CBS Queens ABC Adrianna built and taught a show business and audition workshop for conservatory actors as a guest lecturer at A C T and she made her directorial debut at the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company where she co devised Jerrie Johnson s who now stars as Tye in Amazon Prime s Harlem one woman show The Crooked Room in the National Queer Arts Festival 2019 Adrianna recently directed a workshop of Jerrie Johnson s What We Lost in the Fire with the National Black Theater She is thrilled to associate produce for The Drama Offstage adriannamitchell

BABY BOOM OPERATOR LITERAL BABY CHILD OF ADRIANNA AND KADEEM PRESENT AT ALL SHOOTS A RISING STAR

FIND US ON YOUTUBE!

The Drama Offstage kikii-ed with award-winning screenwriter and playwright York Walker whose play, Covenant, is having its off-broadway world premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company to sold out audiences and is a New York Times Critic’s Pick!

A versus featuring iconic hairstyles from our favorite celebs? YES, PLEASE! Lakisha May and Kalyne Coleman weigh in on the eve of closing this season’s Broadway darling, Jaja’s African Hairbraiding.

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