HOOP JUMPER BROKEN HEART LAND BLOOD BOUNDARY

Poster art from production of BLOOD BOUNDARY New York, Sept. 2017.

BLOOD BOUNDARY
Synopsis

In 1920, Alma's grown son James, raised as white by his grandmother Florence, has to rethink his life when confronted with his Cherokee mixed-blood relatives, and chooses to stand with them in a time of racial oppression, culminating in the Greenwood Massacre in 1921.

Production History

Reading at Native American New Play Festival, Oklahoma City Theatre Company, May 2016

Winner 2017 Native American New Play Festival, Oklahoma City Theater Company

Full Production Oklahoma City Theatre Company, April 7-15, 2017

Full Production Miller-Coffman Productions, Theatre 54, NYC
Sept. 20-Oct. 7, 2017

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Blood Boundary
BLOOD BOUNDARY Review, John Brandenburg in The Oklahoman, Apr. 13, 2017

BLOOD BOUNDARY afterparty, Oklahoma City, April, 2017


A portrait of W.E.B. DuBois plays an integral part in BLOOD BOUNDARY. I decided to paint an appropriate portrait because it would be a difficult stage prop to come up with for every production of the play. This video describes how I developed and painted the portrait.



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