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Lightskin/Darkskin both comically and dramatically explores the lives of two young black females and their road to accept who they were on the inside... and the outside, of course.
Performed by the playwrights themselves, Jocelyn and Kelley play 8 different characters in this hilarious tale of love, life, family and acceptance in the black community.
Performed by the playwrights themselves, Jocelyn and Kelley play 8 different characters in this hilarious tale of love, life, family and acceptance in the black community.
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Production History
Columbia University, February 2006
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Columbia University, November 2006
St. Joseph's of the Holy Family Church, February 2007
Baton Rouge Little Theater 2nd Stage
Baton Rouge, LA - November 2007
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About the Playwrights
Jocelyn Bioh (playwright) is a native of New York City, NY. She received her B.A. in English and minors in Theatre and Professional Writing from The Ohio State University where she starred in Jason Kravits’ Sobering Thoughts. Other productions include: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf, Need: A Chorale for Black Women’s Voices, Pretty Fire, and a showcase production of Disney’s The Lion King. As a playwright, Jocelyn has had 3 of her plays produced including Identity (Columbia University 2006,) Catching a Mouse (The Torture Project – Columbia University 2006,) and Wash ‘N Dry (The Patriot Project – Columbia University 2007.) She is currently in her final year as an M.F.A candidate in Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts. In February of 2007, Jocelyn was signed as a spokesmodel for The CoverGirl Queen Collection Campaign. Her ad has been featured in several publications including Ebony Magazine, Essence Magazine and Hype Hair and she's also featured in the nationally running Queen Collection Commercial. In addition, Jocelyn was also a recipient of Columbia University’s Theatre Fellowship for the 2006-2007 school year. She also serves as one of the founding members of Columbia University’s first black graduate theatre group “The Sister Circle” as well as Red Dress Production Co.
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Kelley Nicole Girod (playwright) is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her B.A in English at Louisiana State University where she studied with Nigerian playwright Femi Euba and produced her first full length Lessons of the Trash Gang at The Baton Rouge Little Theater and again at LSU in February of 2004. Other productions include: Swimming in the Ground which had a four week run at The Complex Theatre in Los Angeles as part of Forbidden Fruit Theatre’s 7 Deadly Sins play festival; Sarah’s Orangetip which ran in the Spring of 2006 as part of “The Torture Project,” a 10 minute play festival produced by Columbia University’s M.F.A Playwriting Class of 2008; her one act Gypsy Moth received a four week run at NYC’s Kraine Theatre in November 2006; Straight On ‘til Morning (nominated for the Allen Weisberger Award by Eduardo Machado) included in Primary Stages’ March Reading Series; Write It Like This produced in the Spring of 2007 as part of “The Patriot Project;” She also adapted Hanoch Levin’s The Child Dreams for its American Premiere at the Kraine Theatre in August of 2007. She is currently in her final year as an M.F.A candidate in Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts where she was the recipient of Columbia’s Stein and Liberace Fellowship for the 2006-2007 school year. Kelley is also a founding member of “The Sister Circle” as wells as Red Dress Production Co.
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Red Dress Production Co.
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