The New Black Fest in collaboration with playwright Dominique Morisseau commissioned five Black women playwrights to dig deeper and participate in the national conversation around Black womanhood and social perceptions of black femininity, providing black women a creative platform to personalize these issues.

Untamed: Hair Body Attitude will feature short plays by Jocelyn Bioh, Chisa Hutchinson, Lenelle Moïse, Nikkole Salter, & Cori Thomas.  Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke & Kaia Calhoun.

March 24 – 28, 2016 – Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 26 at 2 p.m.; and Sunday, March 27  at 4 p.m. at the National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10035.  Tickets $25.

National Black Theatre [NBT] was founded in 1968 in the heart of Harlem by the late Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, an award winning, visionary artist and entrepreneur. With a distinguished 46 year-old history of innovative work in its community, NBT is among the oldest Black Theaters in the country, and amongst the longest owned and operated by a woman of color. NBT is also a pioneer as the first to establish revenue generating Black art complex located at 2031 5th Avenue in Harlem, NY.  NBT’s achievements reflect Dr. Teer’s lifelong commitment to community service through the arts. She believed whole-heartedly in the power of Black Theatre to uplift, strengthen, and heal Black communities on a local and on a national level.

 NBT’s core mission remains the same today as it was at the time of its founding, to produce transformational theatrical experiences that enhance African American cultural identity by telling authentic stories of the Black experience. Dr. Teer envisioned NBT as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower and inform the national conscience around current social justice issues that impact our communities. We continue to provide a safe unhindered space for artist of color to articulate the complexity, and beauty of their experience through theater.