When:
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Mussetter-Struble Theater, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $10 General Admission | $8 Student
Contact:
Brannon Bowers
(847) 467-1172
Group: American Music Theatre Project
Category: Fine Arts, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
As a video game designer (well, almost!), Delilah has never had a problem with her untamed imagination. But when her boss suggests that the lead character in her latest video game is unrealistic and unrelatable because “Black women don’t play video games,” she decides it’s time to reel her imagination in. Fortunately for her, the video game has another idea. Delilah gets sucked into the amazingly colorful world she created and finds there’s nothing wrong with her lead after all. But there is something wrong with the massive, violent changes she didn’t make! Now she must defeat her greatest foe: self-doubt…but…kinda disguised as white supremacy.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren’t Black
by Amara Janae Brady
directed & orchestrated by Xander Browne
music directed by Christie Chiles Twillie
May 15 & 17 at 7:30pm
Mussetter-Struble Theater
Join the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) for the second reading of our 24/25 season and support this sensational new work! Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren’t Black has previously received a MacDowell Residency, a residency with The Parsnip Ship, and a reading at Original Idiots.
CAST | Tafadzwa Diener, De'Jah Jervai, Anne-Sophie Lacombe Garcia, Sarah Charles Lewis, Abraham Deitz-Green, Sadie Stickler, Lilly Sorkin
STAGE MANAGER | Caroline Michele Uy
DRAMATURG | Emry Sottile
SOUND DESIGN & ENGINEER | Hayley Chisholm
When:
Friday, May 17, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Mussetter-Struble Theater, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Cost: $10 General Admission | $8 Student
Contact:
Brannon Bowers
(847) 467-1172
Group: American Music Theatre Project
Category: Fine Arts, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
As a video game designer (well, almost!), Delilah has never had a problem with her untamed imagination. But when her boss suggests that the lead character in her latest video game is unrealistic and unrelatable because “Black women don’t play video games,” she decides it’s time to reel her imagination in. Fortunately for her, the video game has another idea. Delilah gets sucked into the amazingly colorful world she created and finds there’s nothing wrong with her lead after all. But there is something wrong with the massive, violent changes she didn’t make! Now she must defeat her greatest foe: self-doubt…but…kinda disguised as white supremacy.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren’t Black
by Amara Janae Brady
directed & orchestrated by Xander Browne
music directed by Christie Chiles Twillie
May 15 & 17 at 7:30pm
Mussetter-Struble Theater
Join the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) for the second reading of our 24/25 season and support this sensational new work! Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren’t Black has previously received a MacDowell Residency, a residency with The Parsnip Ship, and a reading at Original Idiots.
CAST | Tafadzwa Diener, De'Jah Jervai, Anne-Sophie Lacombe Garcia, Sarah Charles Lewis, Abraham Deitz-Green, Sadie Stickler, Lilly Sorkin
STAGE MANAGER | Caroline Michele Uy
DRAMATURG | Emry Sottile
SOUND DESIGN & ENGINEER | Hayley Chisholm