Today we are continuing our theme, Ebony Expressions: Art for Hope, Help and Healing. Lilada Gee speaks to four Black women playwrights, Sulondia Hammond, Desiree Fleming, Catrina Sparkman and Gethsemane Herron.
Sulonida Hammond, affectionately known as Sue-Ham, shows us how to dream with no limits. She’s an author, playwright, Marine veteran, actor, and mom. Sue created and produced her TV show entitled, “The Sue-Ham Show,” which aired in several cities. She is an award winning playwright who’s currently written and produced three stage plays.
Catrina Sparkman joins us this Academic Year 2016-17 as a Lecturer to teach TD357 Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness Program. She is an accomplished and self-motivated educator with over 13 plus years of hands-on experience in creative arts management, curriculum design and business ownership, excellent communication skills across multicultural environments. She graduated from UW-Madison in African American Studies in 2016 and she has a BA in English Creative Writing.
Gethsemane Herron is a UW Madison undergraduate. She is currently studying play waiting at Columbia University in New York New York. Gethsemane Herron-Coward is a poet-turned-playwright from Washington, D.C. She is a 2016 Semi-Finalist for Rising Circle Theater Collective’s INKtank and a Finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. Gethsemane was also a selected playwright for the 2016 24 Hour Play Festival-Nationals with the New School and a participant in EMERGENYC, the Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program. In 2016, she was awarded a Playwriting grant from the Puffin Foundation, which went to supporting residency with Judson Art’s Magic Time play development hub.
Desiree Fleming is a wife, mother, author, teach, business woman and a Christian playwright in the greater Chicagoland area.
