Nehprii's Next Stop...South Africa!

Hi!  Great news to share!

Every three years, Women Playwrights International  hosts a conference in a new country. Playwrights from around the world submit scripts in hopes of being invited to be part of the event and have their work shared with a global audience. This year the conference is being held in South Africa, and they have chosen...my play Food for the Gods to be presented.  Your pledges will help to guarantee that I will be in attendance at the conference to share this work and will make a difference for expanding the reach of my voice and writing to an international level.   I'm very excited for such a tremendous opportunity, and I greatly appreciate your support and encouragement! 

The play chosen for presentation is "Food for the Gods" I wrote and directed this play as my thesis production at Sarah Lawrence College. It was a bold undertaking about HUMAN VALUE that confronted the difficult topic of Black Men and Police Violence in a very experimental way. Written not to incite anger, but  to expose beauty, create relatability, and to cause CARE.  It included a dinner table of puppets, audience participation, and a moving set.  I am so grateful that the work was well received and turned out to be  great success. Thus far, the play has been awarded the Stanely and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting.  


The topic has continued to be one of great concern that has now garnered international attention. For the past 2 years, I've worked to get the play remounted to a LOCAL NYC audience...  but the efforts seemed to be without success;  I have had a difficult time finding a space in New York willing to take a chance on remounting a work with such an experimental design .   Then comes this:  An opportunity to share this work—these words— to an INTERNATIONAL  AUDIENCE ...in a post apartheid country... wow. Yes. It is more than an honor.  


This funding will help me, my words, and puppets get there...and for me to share this story with eyes and  ears from across the world.  The project will be presented at the University of Cape Town, directed by a South African Director along side the words of amazing playwrights from Canada, Israel, Egypt, France, Zimbabwe, and more...directed by a South African Director.  Thank you greatly for helping me reach my fundraising goal and to secure such a great opportunity. 

                                        I. THANK. YOU.
                                               ~ Nehprii 



                                                  Thank you!!!