Black Lives, Black Words

12/31/2025

11/02/2025

Norway actually pays you to go to college. I get like $400+ every month and America the wealthiest country in the world is forcing many of our youth to go into poverty.

10/28/2025

Join us October 31st at The Ensemble Theatre (3535 Main Street, Houston, TX 77019) for a special Halloween performance of OF A DARKER HUE!

✨ $10 Tickets — Available at the Door!
🎭 Costume Contest with prizes for the Best Costume!

Step into the shadows, celebrate the season, and experience horror from a darker hue.

10/15/2025

This Halloween, don’t just be scared—be haunted. Of A Darker Hue by Award-winning Playwright Reginald Edmund asks: what truths refuse to stay buried?

Playing Oct. 26 and 28-31

Get your 2-4-1 tickets now till Oct. 21

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07/01/2025

Upcoming class with the great Reginald Edmund!

ABOUT REGINALD EDMUND

Reginald Edmund is a resident playwright of Chicago Dramatists, and Managing Curating Producer of Black Lives, Black Words International Project.

He was previously a 2009-2010, 2010-2011 Many Voices Fellow playwright. Originally from Houston, Texas, he served Artistic Director for the Silver House Theatre, as well as the founder and producer for the Silver House Playwrights Festival and the Houston Urban Theatre Series. Reggie was the inaugural recipient of the Kennedy Center Fellowship at Soul Mountain Retreat as well as the 2009 National Runner-up for the Lorraine Hansberry and Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, and most recently winner of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for his play 'SouthBridge'.

He received his BFA in Theatre-Performance from Texas Southern University, and his MFA in playwriting at Ohio University under the guidance of Charles Smith.

In 2009 he founded the Unit Collective and in 2010 he was named Winner of The Southern Writers Competition, and recognized by TCG as a 2011 Young Leader of Color.

His plays, 'The Ordained Smile of Sadie May Jenkins', 'Southbridge', 'Juneteenth Street', and 'The Redemption of Allah Black', all part of his nine-play series The City of the Bayou Collection, were developed at esteemed theaters including Ensemble Theatre of Houston, Silver House Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, the Playwrights’ Center, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Moving Arts, Karamu House, Pangea World Theater, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Texas State University Black and Latino Theatre Conference, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, and the Kennedy Center.

Most recently he traveled to Colombia to serve as the guest speaker at the Intercolegiado de Teatro de Buenaventura.

He is currently Managing Curating Producer of Black Lives, Black Words International Project and a resident playwright for both Chicago Dramatists and Pegasus Theatre-Chicago.

Black Lives, Black Words

03/06/2025

Black Lives Black Words is on the hunt for a new website service. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

02/25/2025

If Democrats led the Rebellion

10/08/2024

KAOS a show named one of the most binge-able shows on Netflix has been canceled after its first season. Warrior gets purchased by Netflix but they don't renew it. What's up with Netflix repeatedly canceling popular shows?

10/08/2024

Debate question... Is The Predator franchise Sci-Fi Horror or Sci-Fi Action.

10/08/2024

Bottled Spirits has been selected for the 2024 Kwanzaa Film Festival.