Ang Bey

Playwriting 

COMPLETED

• The Medusa Play (Full-Length; Themes of Racial Injustice; WORLD PREMIERE @ Shoe Box Theatre Collective- Barrymore Recommended Production)

  • Who is the black artist? Who is Medusa? ​

• The White Feather Project @ Ursinus College  (Director and Playwright)

  • The White Feather Project is a theatre piece devised from interviews of the Ursinus community concerning cowardice under racial stress. Accompanying the final performances and script, a website including a reading list, video diaries (of the process), and original blog posts will be available for public and academic use long after the project’s completion. ​

• Com[promising] Freedom (One- Act; Historical Fiction; Produced @ The National Constitution Center

  • "What will we do with all this freedom?"- Elizabeth Powell​ and her peers ask themselves this question in studying for their final history exam about The Declaration of Independence.

    • Click here to read an article

• Pedestals (Monologue; Themes of Racial Injustice; Produced @ Interact Theater Company)

  • After assaulting a peer due to a racially charged incident, an African-American star student is confronted by her principal and her future

    • Click here to watch a recording of Pedestals

    • Philadelphia Young Playwright's podcast series "Mouthful" interviewed me about Pedestals. Listen to the podcast here!​

• The Playground (Full-length; Themes of Mental Health; How I Learned to Write Festival & produced @ Ursinus College)

  • High school senior Grey Bowman tries to reorient himself after a severe trauma involving himself and a childhood best friend.

• Editorial for Grid Magazine about my experience as a young artist of color.

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IN-DEVELOPMENT ​

• The Pageant Wagon: Everyman- a devised, socially-distant, live adaptation of Everyman with contemporary emphasis on Black liberation.

• Twenty-Six (Full-Length)

• 154 Revisited with Revolution Shakespeare  (Adapting sonnets 46, 85, & 98)

• Walk the Line (One-Act)-  Run. Don't walk. Who decides how we pursue our legacy? Who decides how we fight for liberation? Who draws the line? A hood-angel Zoom-bombs Hudda's final moments. They are both in crisis. They argue over what it means to live and die in a world that'd rather you be erased. Hudda won't live to be erased.

• The Utopia Project- a devised, multimedia performance piece/time capsule//machine with the Upper School students of Friends Select.

• The Treehouse (Full-Length)- "I want to build a world Black dads don't get lost in..."

• Rice & Em Fight a Lion (Full-Length)

  • On-going, world-building exercise exploring the intersections of (non-binary) gender and race in the digital age.

For more information (commissions, writing samples, inquiries), please email

Walk The Line

A Zoom Play

Commissioned by The Philadelphia Women's Theatre Festival

Synopsis:

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Run. Don't walk. 

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Who decides how we pursue our legacy?

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Who decides how we fight for liberation? 

Who draws the line?

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A hood-angel (Marissa Kennedy) Zoom-bombs Hudda's (Briyana D. Clarel) final moments. They are both in crisis. They argue over what it means to live and die in a world that'd rather you be erased. Hudda won't stand to be erased.

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This reading was originally broadcast live to Facebook on September 17th, 2020. 

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Audience Reviews:

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"Walk The Line was visceral, timely & so moving. No fat, all substance, lean and fierce with piercing moments of silence, that spoke volumes. Brilliant!" -Brian Anthony Wilson

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"I thought your work tonight highlighted a very important conversation Black people are having right now. This work will be something to look back on as it examines the nuance in the lives and decisions of Black people as well as their fight for liberation. The play creates space for the fears we hold onto on a daily basis and rather than stay in a place of scarcity this play ignites us to start thinking from a place of abundance. It challenges us to think about what changes really means and how willing are we to start imagining the lives we deserve as Black folks." -Deja Morgan

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"Ang's clever use of the Zoom medium made it all the more impactful. It was relevant and clear. You pulled no punches. Theatre at its sharpest."

-Kristin Curley

A Zoom Play

Commissioned by Revolution Shakespeare's 154 Revisited

Dandelion

Synopsis:

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Isis (Adaeze Nwoko) and Nile (Satchel Willams) are in love and try very hard to keep that true. But distance, miscommunication, and fear marks disaster when you can't reach through a screen to hold a hand.

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Adapted from William Shakespeare's Sonnets 98, 85, and 46.

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From FringeArts Website:

"Timeless, ageless, and intangible in so many ways — love can be translated into so many forms. Revolution Shakespeare hopes to purely spread more love to any and all who would engage, and to embrace where Shakespeare’s words meet modern sensibilities.

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Over 50 playwrights, poets, songwriters, creatives have adapted Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, considered masterly textual representations of love, into their own uniquely voiced forms. These 154 adaptations, now embodied by a variety of talented individuals in video/audio form, represent a way for us all to translate love into a new form — and perhaps, find and give love radically."

The Medusa Play

Academic Premiere at Ursinus College in Spring of 2019  (Directed by Tamanya Garza)

BARRYMORE RECOMMENDED World Premiere with Shoe Box Theatre Collective at Venice Island Performing Arts Center November 15th though 27th (Co-Directed by Ang Bey & Ryan Rebel)

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Click here to read my director/playwright's note.

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(Photography by Christian Hayden from World Premiere featuring cast members Taylor Cawley, Briyana D. Clarel, Bryce Menard, Terriny Morrison, & William Morrison; poster design by Shahana Jan)

Artistic resume download here. Arts administration resume download here.