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The MacBeth Project

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THE MACBETH PROJECT presents: “Shakespeare: Rebuilt”

This project was built out of a community outcry for more African American representation in the classical theater arts. It is a 5 year project producing the story of MacBeth, co-created with a different cultural asset each year, infusing the productions with both cultural identities.

For our 2022 season:

A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM  - Apr 2022
In partnership with Celebration Arts, we produced William Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM with a full African-American cast and utilizing non-traditional casting methods. This adaptation, developed by Khimberly Marshall, reflects a future Africa while honoring the past and recognizing the western culture of our present. Using  Shakespeare's beautiful framework in poetic language we highlight the true nature of magic in an African culture.  

DRACULA - Oct 2022
Louisiana vampire Count Dracula bends a naïve real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a Bayou estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.


For our 2023 Season:

MACBETH - Oct 2023
We are in partnership with Teatro Espejo, an amazing cultural institution in Sacramento servicing specifically the Latinx community for over 30 years. We will co-produce a production of MacBeth presented at The BrickHouse Gallery in their outdoor garden. 

During the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are began producing  12 of Shakespeare’s plays, edited down to 60 minute or less,  performed live online to audiences worldwide.

These episodes will be added to an online repository of cultural work provided completely free to the public in perpetuity.

Our project is using new creative energies to push boundaries while including themes of ancient tradition, contemporary mainstream culture, and Afrofuturism.

This collaborative effort is helmed by Artistic Director, Khimberly Marshall, who will produce an innovative script and production design specific to each story. Each episode will feature 9 performers playing multiple roles, and include energetic digital video backgrounds creating thematic scenery for the story, and innovative digital sound scape’s, creating a virtual digital world for the performers to engage in.

Embracing tech innovations to tell our stories, we decided to use an online platform to produce this series. This helps us contribute to the resilience of our cultural community, by providing an inclusive environment that fosters future work endeavors for artists with training in a tech field. Using this technology gives our patrons an opportunity to engage with us on an immediate yet intimate level, it provides youth training in utilizing technology to push creative endeavors and performance opportunities for artists of color.

Shakespeare: Rebuilt is infused with the voices of many generations and variances in our communities of color. It bridge’s economy and class, and removes boundaries that separate people from their own culture. Infusing technology with an African-American lens for future generations of luminaries is the goal of this project.

For more info:  https://www.themacbethproject.com/ 

Your generous donation will be used to purchase equipment for production and to pay our artists.

All episodes are available on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQK5Zbz1oNi5XLOtjndIMtRs3gBhzQs-s




THE MACBETH PROJECT

The MacBeth Project is designed to infuse more classical art into historically underserved communities. It is a 5 year project producing the story of MacBeth, co-created with a different cultural asset each year, infusing the productions with both cultural identities. With this partnership we will continue our community engagement element of the Shakespeare: Rebuilt, facilitating focus groups and college lectures.

Our productions focus on the culture of the intended audience members, often incorporating themes and requests gathered from our focus group meetings. These focus group meetings are designed to bring community members, activists, artists, and business owners together to discuss their views on theater, their experience being a person of color as audience members, as artists, and co-creators, and on Shakespeare and MacBeth specifically.

The MacBeth Project will reach approximately 87 community members in focus group/workshop work, 400 high school students with school presentations, 200 university students thru our Folsom College lecture series, 2000 audience members thru ticket sales, and 6 cultural institutions in partnership; each year for our 5 year mission.


THE MACBETH PROJECT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/FOUNDER


 KHIMBERLY MARSHALL
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/FOUNDER


 Khimberly Marshall has 18 years combined experience in both Theater and Film production having written, directed and produced national commercials spots, short films and regional theater productions. She has won numerous awards for art and literature. Khimberly has also worked for major clients such as the California Music Theater, Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Area Theater Alliance, Theater El Dorado Board, Celebration Arts, El Teatro Espejo, and the Creative Arts League of Sacramento. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Management with a second Bachelor’s degree in Film from The Art Institute of California. Previously engaged at the Crocker Art Museum as an Art Corp Fellow, she was embedded in the Block by Block Initiative, creating social practice art in underrepresented communities. Khimberly finds her most rewarding work in providing support to people and organizations that foster community.

Currently, she is delving deeper into her own artistry as a sculptor, having shown her work as several galleries in Northern California, she hopes to one day find her art in the very museums that began her love for the arts. Oh and by the way…she is also a ninja!

KT MASALA
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/FOUNDING MEMEBER

KT MASALA has performed and featured with several "The Macbeth Project," Celebration Arts," "African-American Shakespeare Company," "Theater First," and "California Musical Theater, Martin Luther King Projects" productions. She is an ELLY Nominated Supporting Actress and Award Winner. Ms. Masala has assistant directed, stage managed, and operated lights and sound in multiple productions as well. KT is the Founder of “Will Succeed Mentor Services,” and “The Audition.” She was Co-Founding Member for “Images Theatrical Company.”  and currently board member of "Celebration Arts," and Assistant Director/Lead Contributor of "The Macbeth Project." KT Masala holds a Master’s degree in Educational Counseling.


COMMUNITY PARTNERS:

SOJOURNER TRUTH MULTICULTURAL ART MUSEUM & THE BRICKHOUSE GALLERY
 
Through The MacBeth Projects partnership with Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum & The Brickhouse Gallery in Oak Park, we are facilitating “Soulful Sonnets”: An after school program for youth artists of color, including a series of workshops and pop-up events centered on the art and poetry of Shakespeare, specifically his sonnets. These will culminate in an evening of dramatically produced prose offered free to the community. Each of the “30 Minute Shakespeare” episodes will feature a youth artists’ sonnet performance. Our purpose is to foster understanding of the sonnet and production needs while assisting the students and community members as they build their version of their selected sonnet, in their image, with their own production concepts and themes utilized/incorporated into the structure of the piece.

CELEBRATION ARTS
Celebration Arts (CA) is a 501(C)(3) non-profit educational and performance organization providing performing arts training and opportunities to underserved communities, particularly African American residents in the Sacramento Metropolitan area. CA provides drama, dance, and music productions and classes, allowing aspiring black artists and communities to experience the performing arts where they are the central subjects.

TEATRO ESPEJO

TEATRO ESPEJO has been bringing theatre to the community for more than 40 years. Under the guidance of Artistic Director and Professor Emeritus, Manuel José Pickett, Teatro Espejo has remained dedicated to offering opportunities to teatristas of all ages and skill levels. Our seasons honor the rich legacy and history of teatro by producing important classic works from the Chicano/Latinx theatre cannon, and groundbreaking contemporary works by new, emerging, and established playwrights representing the Latinx diaspora. https://teatroespejo.com/

THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FILMMAKERS COALITION (NCFC)

NCFC was created to encourage individuals in filmmaking or film related areas to meet on a regular bases and explore the various aspects of the film industry. With their partnership we will build our repository platform with this and future works.

MA SERIES ARTS

MA SERIES ARTS dedicated to support, performance, research and practice by women, queer of color, and trans artists. Our focus is set on supporting cultura & via artists who uplift and honor their communities through regenerative, visionary, and experimental practices. We are movement organizers and artists working towards liberation for all from oppressive structures and power over people. We are dedicated to working together to thrive. https://maseriesarts.org/

WITH  GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM: 

THE CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNSIL
10500FLZ
THE MARSHALL FOUNDATION
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Donations 

  • Monica Roberts
    • $100
    • 2 yrs
  • Paul R Coaxum
    • $100
    • 2 yrs
  • Peggy Wheeler
    • $25
    • 2 yrs
  • Sara Townsend
    • $25
    • 2 yrs
  • Alfred Marshall
    • $50
    • 2 yrs
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Khimberly Marshall
Organizer
La Riviera, CA
Kris Marshall
Team member

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