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Yvonne Singh
Yvonne Singh was recently named in Creative Loafing’s The Best of Atlanta 2006 as Best Supporting Performer for her work in Leaving Limbo by Valetta Anderson (The Essential Theatre Power Plays 2006), the world premiere of Robert Earl Price’s Come On In My Kitchen (7 Stages) and Nickled and Dimed, both directed by Del Hamilton (7 Stages). Her recent return to performance commenced with the world premiere of Erik Ehn’s Maria Kizito (7 Stages) followed by the Southeastern premiere of Lee Blessing’s Going To St. Ives (Essential Theatre).
For the past 20 years, Singh has worked primarily in academic theater and has taught, directed and performed for Theater Cornell, Theater BGSU, CUNY/Hostos, and locally for Theater Emory, Clark Atlanta University, and Georgia State University. Currently enjoying a self-imposed sabbatical leave from academia, Singh works through her new Theater Education company, TheaterATL/International, www.TheaterATL.com. An academic specialist in Theater Studies and Africana Studies, Singh holds a PhD in Theater Studies from Cornell, a Masters in Africana Studies from the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell, and a Master of Fine Arts in Theater from Brooklyn College. In 2002, Dr. Singh was honored by her undergraduate alma mater as one of the first three inductees to the Georgetown Theater Hall of Fame for having founded the still functioning Black Theatre Ensemble as an undergraduate (where she performed in her first play ever, Ron Miner’s Who’s Got His Own and later directed Ntozake Shange’s For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf as her senior honors thesis).
Singh holds NY State Permanent Certification as a teacher of English (7-12) and has taught locally at The Paideia School, Cascadilla Prep in Ithaca, NY and at her alma mater, St. John Vianney Cure of Ars in the Bronx.
Playwrighting highlights include:
The Life and Times of Elsie Brooks (school tours), Common Language (Commissioned by the NY State Women’s Studies Association), and LynchP*in (developed for The International Conference on “Lynching and Racial Violence: Histories and Legacies� at Emory and premiered during the National Black Arts Festival 2002).
Directing highlights include:
The Southeastern premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Sleep Deprivation Chamber for Theater Emory; Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West and Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight Los Angles: 1992 for Theater BGSU; Leslie Lee’s Colored People’s Time, Athol Fugard’s The Island, Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind, and Anna Deveare Smith’s Fires in the Mirror for Cornell; and George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum and Laurence Holder’s When the Chickens Came Home to Roost for The Kitchen Theater Company (KTC, Ithaca, NY).
Other theater highlights include:
Serving as Assistant Director to Wole Soyinka for 1994 (Theater Emory) and The Beatification of Area Boy> (performed for Works and Process at the Guggenheim); Developing roles in Charles Busch’s Times Square Angel and Pardon My Inquisition, as an early member of the Theater-in-Limbo company; Touring N’Awlins with the Dinosaur North and South Theater Art Collective; and chatting with Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner at the Abby Theater in Ireland.
All Time Favorite Roles Include:
Miss Leah in Flyin’ West; an androgynous Jaques in Keith Grant’s As You Like It; the manly, albeit blinded, Earl of Gloucester in David Feldshuh’s King Lear and always and forever Zora Neale Hurston.
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