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An Afternoon with Caleen Sinnette Jennings and Miyuki Williams
For Jazz History Month, join us for a special performance celebrating jazz and fathers.
Who first introduced you to jazz? What was that experience? Miyuki Williams and Caleen Sinnette Jennings recreate the joy of discovering jazz with their daddies. Based on Jennings's and Williams's interviews with other women, the play tells the stories of women who inherited their daddies’ love of the music.
Filled with visuals from back in the day, call and response, and even a little dance, please join us in celebrating the beauty of this uniquely American art form.
Caleen Sinnette Jennings is Professor of Theatre Emerita at American University. She joined the faculty in 1989, directed for the main stage and taught thirteen different courses in the theatre and general education programs. In 2003 she received American University’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. In 2016 she became the founding Chair of the President’s Council on Diversity and Inclusion, and in 2018 she received the University’s inaugural Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. During her tenure at A.U. she was Director of the Theatre/Musical Theatre Program and Chair of the Department of Performing Arts. She has been a faculty member of the Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute since 1994. Dramatic Publishing Company has published 8 of her plays: Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of , Inns & Outs, Playing Juliet/Casting Othello, Free Like Br’er Rabbit, Sunday Dinner, Chem Mystery, A Lunch Line, and Same But Different. Her play, Uncovered" is published in the Lane/Shengold Anthology, Shorter, Faster, Funnier and her play, Classy Ass is published in five anthologies. Jennings’ play, Darius & Twig was produced at the Kennedy Center Family Theatre and did a national tour in 2017. Her Queens Girl trilogy plays have received both live and virtual productions at Theatre J, Mosaic Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Hangar Theatre.
Miyuki Williams, DC's queen of Sunday jazz, trained at Douglas College, part of Rutgers. Later she was accepted to Michael Kahn’s Acting Shakespeare for Actor’s of Color. She was a member of the WSC(Washington Shakespeare Company) for several years. She has performed Horizons, Studio, Source, Folger and with the Welders. Miyuki has hosted a jazz program, A SundayKind of Love, on WPFW 89.3 radio for over 43 years.
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Jazz Appreciation Month |