The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and The University of Warwick together with Voza Rivers and the Harlem Shakespeare Festival are working together to celebrate Black History Month in the UK featuring visiting artist Debra Ann Byrd as she performs a concert staged reading of her new solo-show BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey for two performances on 9 October 2019 at The Shakespeare Center in Stratford-upon-Avon; and 16 October 2019 at Warwick Arts Center’s Helen Martin Studio in Coventry.

BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey is a 90 minute, 5-Act, living memoir which explores a young woman’s acting journey on the road to becoming Othello, her trials and triumphs with race and the classics, some memorable experiences on her gender flipped journey and her fun-loving and tumultuous youth; complete with moving multimedia images, lyrical language from Black women playwrights, William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the King James Bible, along with soulful songs and the music that shaped her life in her beloved Harlem.

BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey, written and performed by Debra Ann Byrd is Produced by Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre Group, Paul Prescott, Paul Edmonson and Katie Brokaw, with Costumes by Gail Cooper-Hecht, Sound Design by David D. Wright, Story Coaching by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein/Story Gold Solo Show Coaching and Workshopped by Tina Packer, founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company.

Warwick Arts Centre
Helen Martin Studio
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Tel: 024 7652 4524

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Both performances are presented Free and Open to the Public.
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