A reading of
Baldwin’s NI$$ER
by
June 12, 2023
Balance Arts Center
NYC
*Curated event, co-producer:
Reginald T Jackson
Kubbi
directed by
starring
with
Roland Lane
James Baldwin
as
Riley Ewing
as
Ezra Goldstein
Description:
Approached by a white stranger, offering a million dollars for the Civil Rights Movement, Baldwin invites this friend or foe to his room at midnight. They immediately spar like prize fighters trying not to get hit, but provocation leads to conflict and lust. Will both get what they want or will someone be exposed and left in a fetal ball of defeat?
Meet the Team
Roland is a film and theatre actor trained at the Wynn Handman Studios.
Film/TV: Issa Rae presents: King Ester, Blackout (Showtime), Brooklyn. Blue. Sky. (BET) and Sauce (BRIC TV).
Riley is an Actor/Singer/Filmmaker. Acting redits include Off-broadway, regional, and touring theaters. He also runs SPACEHEAD Productions. Short film Unplugged was the Red Movie Award-winning film,. Trained at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music and the Upright Citizens Brigade
Plays: Bigger than Bubble Gum (Lincoln Center), Aretha: Queen of Soul (St. Pauli Theater of Hamburg Germany), Straight Boys and Lovesickness which is used for teaching at NYU. Books of poetry: This Morning I Woke Up Black and Hejira: from Cradle to Grave (2008 and 2009 Lambda Literary Foundation’s Poetry Award nominees).
Awards and honors: 1994 National Shakespeare Pioneer (The Public Theater), New York City Mayor’s Citation and an Arts and Cultural Foundation Award for his work teaching creative writing throughout NYC.
kubbi
Director/design
Kubbi received her certification in directing from Yale. Credits: Middle School Madness (Off-Broadway), For Colored Girls who have considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enough and Two Trains Running (Castillo Theatre), Wide Awake Jake (TADA). Kubbi is also a actress/singer. AEA/SAG-AFTRA member.
