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past seasons

2010-2019

A partial list of productions from 2010-2019:

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  • This Is Gaffney in September 2010

  • O Come All Ye Faithful: Black Nativity the Musical, directed by Hassan El-Amin

  • Waiting to Be Invited, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • Nativity: A Soulful Celebration, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • Forever Free: A Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Before It Hits Home, and Christmas Is Comin’ Uptown, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • “The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar” presented and recited by Dorothy L. W. Smith

  • “And Still I Rise,” a one-man show of poetry and music by Grandison Phelps III

  • “African American Literature: Facts and Fiction,” by Theresa “T” Ford from the San Diego Black Storytellers

  • “Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Carmen Gaffney and Dorothy L. W. Smith

  • “A Musical Tribute in Memory of Dr. Floyd Gaffney” by Francine DeWitt-Haynes

  • Nativity: A Soulful CelebrationCrownsNativity: A Modern Day Noel, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When the Streets Were Not Enough, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr. and Terrance Bowens

  • North Star Rising, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • The Wiz, directed by Charles Patmon, Jr.

  • James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, directed by Yolanda Marie Franklin, 2019-2020 Guest Artistic Director. 

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