Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Company continues to have a lazer focus on bringing quality Black Queer Theatre in the Magic City, it has a now three-year relationship with so many great partners, & ally’s in the city of Birmingham including The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, which has sponsored all of our productions from our nationally recognized production of “Choir Boy”, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, closely followed by the intimate story of “Sugar in Our Wounds”, (also by Donja R. Love), followed up by our acclaimed COVID-19 era digital theatre production of “Is Anybody Out There . . . ?” by Carlton V Bell.
2020 was a rough here for all of us, at BBRTC, we decided that the best course of action was to follow our mission statement to “Empower Our Community, Empower Yourself”, by utilizing the funds we had were rewarded throughout 2020-- we received a Dramatist Guild Fellowship Award, as well as a Sipp Culture Foundation award, for which we directly put back into the hands of 8 Black queer artists through our new BBRTC Artistic Fellowship, and BBRTC Apprenticeship Program(s) to facilitate & curate new works from across the country. We decided as a company, that it was better to invest in artists personally, rather than force a lack-luster production in the middle of a pandemic. In 2021, we want to continue this tradition of success & community forward creating with Donja R. Love’s “One In Two”. This heart wrenching play is a soft & brilliant portrayal of three young Black queer men navigating their experiences with HIV. Adapting “one in two” to the virtual realm is creating space for the South’s most often ignored— those who are Black, queer, and HIV positive. We are animating Donja R. Love’s words in order to charge an audience’s curiosity to face themselves and the harmful biases they hold against a group categorized as disposable. We are committing to blanketing softness around our Black queer folks in search of relief from a restless system. Utilizing community partnerships to engage a global conversation on centering HIV awareness, and hopefully reduction through a uniquely southern Black queer lens. BBRTC is the perfect vehicle for this feat.
The Award winning Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Company (BBRTC) is a non-profit Whose main goal is to produce bodies of performance art by & for people across the African Diaspora in order to showcase & introduce Black works to the Birmingham Community through: Staged readings, main-stage & black-box performances, & workshops with industry professionals.
BBRTC aims to fill the void of representation on and backstage in the Birmingham Community by recruiting, maintaining, & nurturing a team of Black creatives, including, but not limited to; Actors, Directors, Production, Choreographers, Costumers, Sound Designers, etc… to curate exciting & thought provoking theatre.
BBRTC has also has a continued laser focus on highly marginalized groups of people within the diaspora, including but not limited to Black Women, Black LGBTQ+ People, & Black Disabled People.
"Empower Your Community, Empower Yourself."
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