windows, doors, closets and drawers . . .

a blog by Nina Angela Mercer

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

nina angela mercer: the bronx, new york, United States; I am a cultural worker. My plays include GUTTA BEAUTIFUL (The Warehouse Theatre, The Woolly Mammoth, Abrons Arts Center, Little Carib Theatre); ITAGUA MEJI: A Road & A Prayer (Brecht Forum, Alternate Roots, Rutgers University Newark and New Brunswick, The Nuyorican Poets Café); GYPSY & THE BULLY DOOR(The Warehouse Theatre, the former Dumbo Sky); ELIJAHEEN BECOMES WIND (Anacostia Arts Center); CHARISMA AT THE CROSSROADS (Alice Young Arts Center); SPARROW (The Langston Hughes House); A COMPULSION FOR BREATHING (Schomburg Center, Target Margin Theater), and MOTHER WIT & WATER-BORN (in development at Drew University). My writing is published in The Killens Review of Arts & Letters; Black Renaissance Noire; Voices Magazine #SayHerName Edition; Continuum: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre, and Performance; Break Beat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Press, 2018); Are You Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the 21st Century (Duke University Press, 2020); Performance Research Journal; and the upcoming Represent! Plays for Multicultural Youth (Bloomsbury, 2021). I live to dance, make devotional gris gris, & a way out of no way.

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