Geraldine Inoa via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Geraldine Inoa
- City: Los Angeles
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Geraldine Elizabeth Inoa is a writer for theater and television. Her play SCRAPS had its world premiere production at the Flea Theater as part of its 2018/19 season, marking her professional debut. SCRAPS made its West Coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles during summer 2019.
As a playwright, she is an alumnus of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group and the inaugural recipient of The Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission. She is a L. Arnold Weissberg New Play Award finalist, a P73 Playwriting Fellowship finalist, and a twice-named Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist. Her work has been developed at the Atlantic Theater Company and the Labyrinth Theater Company.
She holds a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She resides in Los Angeles with her dog Alfred.
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://www.geraldineinoa.com
- ▶ Article: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-07-28/african-american-playwrighting-new-era-geraldine-inoa-scraps-dionna-m-daniel-gunshot-medley-part-1-discover-the-future-in-the-past
- ▶ Article 2: http://chicago.splashmags.com/index.php/2019/07/11/scraps-review-the-people-left-behind/
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
NY Press for SCRAPS
"This ambitious, vibrant new play—written by Geraldine Inoa and directed by Niegel Smith—is performed without an intermission, but it has two distinct, contrasting acts. The first is set on a trash-strewn stoop in Bed-Stuy, four months after the shooting of a black teen-ager from the neighborhood by a white cop. A series of beautifully written scenes involving four people who were close to the young man—played by Roland Lane, Tanyamaria, Alana Raquel Bowers, and Michael Oloyede, all members of the Bats ensemble—powerfully and passionately convey the sadness, anger, tension, and despair of the tragedy." - The New Yorker
"Ms. Inoa, a playwright to watch melds various styles here, moving from the rap opener to a naturalistic first act. The second act...shifts into the unsettling, urgently heightened landscape of Sebastian's nightmare. You can feel the influences here — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Spike Lee and James Scruggs come to mind — Ms. Inoa nonetheless uses them in service of her own sharp vision." - The New York Times
"A passionate new voice screaming to be heard." - Time Out New York
“The play is gloriously black. It welcomes people from all cultural and racial backgrounds, but lets us know we're guests in this space. The characters in Inoa's Brooklyn aren't there to educate or enlighten white people, they're not there to be mere morality tales, they're there to exist, to be given opportunities they might not be given in real life. They are there to be listened, not argued or conversed with.” - Talkin’ Broadway
LA Press for SCRAPS
“...Magnificently written and directed… We can only hope society can change for the better thanks to such thought provoking work by artist destined for greatness… A show not to miss.” — Broadway World
“Stunning… [a] remarkable ensemble of actors. Miss Inoa's voice isn't one you've heard in the theater before but if we're going to make sense of racism and the violence against innocent black men, hers is an essential voice.” — KCRW 89
“Provocative… Inoa’s language is authentic and often raw, both lofty and nightmarish… Stevie Walker-Webb does deeply committed work directing this increasingly hallucinatory confection…. A forceful play about slavery’s legacy” “This is unforgettable theater” — People’s World
“Bold, timely hotblooded… This important, extraordinary, affecting play, featuring a superb cast of actors given keen direction by Stevie Walker~Webb, must be seen.” — Theatre Notes
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
