GOLDEN WINGS Creative

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playwright
Coolidge Harris II
is an award-winning playwright. He was a member of the Sons and Ancestors Players Theatre Troupe under the artistic direction of the late T. Michael Gates. He has authored the One Act play A Trial for Butchy and later wrote Footsteps in the Dark. After a move to the Bay Area and spending 25 years in the Washington DC metro area, Coolidge came back to California and retired as an educator to pursue his passion in playwrighting. His more recent works are Greenwood and Golden Wings. Greenwood won the 2021 African American Playwrights Group BIPOC New Play competition in conjunction with the Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts in Charlotte, NC. It is a finalist in the 2021 (AACT) American Association of Community Theatres NewPlayFest, a semifinalist in the 2021 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, and Honorable Mention in the 2020 Panndora’s Box Playwrights Competition.
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director
Rain Pryor
co-founded Baltimore Theatre Works. She taught acting at Center Stage, Baltimore School For The Arts, and was honored at Coppin State University Theatre Arts Conference in 2019. Mother May I by humorist Dylan Brody was Pryor’s directorial debut. She also directed MILF, Mom I’d Like to Follow written and performed by Comedian Meshelle, which won Best Stand Up at the United Solo Festival in NY and has played to sold out crowds across the country. She was artistic director of the Strand Theatre in Baltimore in 2010 and directed three highly successful shows that brought the company into a financial surplus. Fried Chicken and Latkes is Pryor's award-winning solo show, a story of growing up black and Jewish in a politically incorrect era. The show played to sold out crowds at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA, and repeated that success in New York, Chicago, Ohio, Virginia, Texas, and Scotland.
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producer
Benny Lumpkins Jr.
originated from Detroit and got his theatre start at Old Dominion University. Recent producing credits include: Broadway Slave Play, Off Broadway The Landstuhl Chronicles, A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet. A Hollywood costume designer/set costumer, recent credits include: “My Brother Wes,” on Amazon.

Cast

starring Lillias White as Bessie, and Scotch Loring as Brown 
with Stanley Wayne Mathis, Jerome Preston Bates, Dan Saunders
Crystal Starr, Sherman Edwards, Aliria Johnson

Kamryn Neill (Narrator/Stage Directions), Elizabeth Flax (Female Swing), Emely Selina Zepeda (Stage Manager)