Masquerade opens with a Standing Ovation!
Posted by Fetch Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:47:00 GMT
terraNOVA Collective opened Roger Bonair-Agard’s one man show to a standing ovation and two encores on Tuesday night. With Kamilah Forbes (Hip Hop Theater Festival) behind the direction of this project, it has been shaped into a powerful evening of theater. Roger speaks directly to the audience about his life growing up in Trinidad and what it has been like for him since he emigrated to America. With many Trinidadians in the audience, the audience broke out into some Mighty Sparrow songs, singing along with Roger.
This show is unlike anything On the Leesh has produced before. Be sure to check it out, and see what makes Roger one of the most charismatic performers we’ve ever worked with. The show runs through November 19th, and tickets are available on smarttix,com. To view a trailer of this show, please visit www.terranovacollective.org 
Roger Bonair-Agard is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, a Cave Canem fellow, author of “tarnish and masquerade” (Cypher Books, 2006), and co-author of Burning Down the House. He is a two-time National Slam Champion and is co-founder of The louderARTS Project. Roger’s work has been widely anthologized and commissioned and he has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. He teaches and performs throughout the world and keeps his belongings in Brooklyn.
Kamilah Forbes is the founding Artistic Director of Hip-Hop Theatre Junction, whose mission is to foment the creation of pieces in the hip-hop theatre aesthetic. Kamilah has found herself at the forefront of the creation of works by, for and about the hip-hop generation. Kamilah first came to prominence as the writer/director of Hip-Hop Theatre Junction’s premier work “Rhyme Deferred.” Kamilah is currently involved as the Co-Producer for the Peabody award-winning show “Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam” and assistant director to the Tony award-winning Broadway tour “Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam.”
