Mojoaa Performing Arts Company

09/30/2025

✨ From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU! ✨

To everyone who joined us for Escape to Freedom — your presence, energy, and support brought this powerful story to life in unforgettable ways.

Together, we honored the stories of Ben Crump, Aunt Molly, Frank Freeman, Essex Henry, Hannah Crasson, Fannie Mae, Mattie Curtis, and countless others whose lives were scarred by slavery.

Escape to Freedom was more than a show. It was a journey through history  and a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. 

Stay tuned for more programming!

 

08/29/2025

Step into the story. Feel the struggle. Witness the courage.

Escape to Freedom is not just a performance — it’s an interactive theater experience that places you inside a powerful journey of resilience, resistance, and hope.

🗓 September 12 & 13 – 7:30PM & 9:00PM
🗓 September 14 – 4:30PM
📍 Mordecai Historic Park
🎟 Tickets & Info: 919.996.4364
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✨ Come ready to listen, feel, and remember.

08/18/2025

Step into the past and witness the powerful journey toward liberation. Set in the Mordecai Historic Park, this immersive performance will place you at the center of a story you’ll never forget.

🗓 September 12 & 13 – 7:30PM & 9:00PM
🗓 September 14 – 4:30PM
📍 Mordecai Historic Park
🎟 Tickets & Info: 919.996.4364

08/14/2025

01/05/2023

MOJOAA Performing Arts Company is proud to offer the second Southern Black Playwrights Lab! This lab is presented specifically for the growth and development of Southern Black Playwrights. Playwrighting sessions begin in February 2023, apply now with this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSev3RC3Zslh-M10owxolcmNSTYkR07Jb48nT4LJA2fVOyFilA/viewform?usp=pp_url

11/13/2021

Thank you to each and every person who listened to season 1 of the ! If you missed and episode (or the whole season), all is well. You can still listen to each episode on all major podcast streaming platforms. Also stay tuned to see what MOJOAA has in-store for the for the rest of 2021 and 2022.

10/21/2021

We are thrilled to share our interview with Nick Hadwika Mwaluko the playwright for A Love Letter to my Gay Black Beloved Andre Alexander Lancaster.

Trans, q***r, non-binary, Tanzanian-American, poet-playwright-fiction-essayist NICK HADIKWA MWALUKO: Plays include: 37, S.T.A.R: Marsha P. Johnson; two q***r African trilogies Waafrika and Waafrika 123; the QTPOC trans masculine THEY/THEM/THEIRS (TBA/Theater Bay Area); the q***r apocalypse Homeless in the AfterLife; Blueprint for an African Le***an; SH/Eroe; Asymmetrical We; Brotherly Love; Trailer Park Tundra; Once A Man Always A Man; Mama Afrika; Q***ring MacBeth; Life Is About the Kill; That Day God Visits You; Ata; To D**e Trans; Gayze and many more. Residencies include: Nationally accredited Resident Playwright Initiative (RPI) with nationally acclaimed Playwrights’ Foundation; Resilience and Development (R&D) Writers’ Lab with Crowded Fire Theater Company in San Francisco; New York City’s EWG (Emerging Writers’ Group) at the Public Theater sponsored by Time Warner; New York City’s Groundbreakers Group, Djerassi Artist Residency in northern California, Freedom Train Productions, Ragged Wing Ensemble and more. Nick’s essay “XXYX Q***r Africa: More Invisible”, written as a companion piece to Nick’s q***r POC play Waafrika 1-2-3, is currently in Best American Essays 2020. Nick’s other essay was nominated for a Pushcart Award (results currently pending). Nick is a 2018 finalist for Africa’s Gerald Kraak Award; a two-time recipient of the Creativity Fund issued by the Public Theater and Time Warner, and a 2017 Spring grantee of a Theatre Bay Area (TBA) Individual Artist Cash grant. Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude at Columbia University in the City of New York for undergrad and completed an MFA at Columbia University in the City of New York while also a Point Scholar, the nation’s largest LGBTQIA academic scholarship fund, and was awarded a Columbia University Fellowship at the same time. Nick was also at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop but dropped out.

10/19/2021

A Love Letter to my Gay Black Beloved Andre Alexander Lancaster Cast Spotlight!

A Love Letter to my Gay Black Beloved Andre Alexander Lancaster cast:

Tristan Andre Parks

Tristan André. Brother. Sun. Black memory cultural worker. Lover of his community. Yes, beloveds. You are that community. Tristan, an alum of the MFA Professional Actor Training Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a Southern multi-hyphenate artist whose credits include PlayMakers Repertory Company's Life of Galileo, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Leaving Eden, Twelfth Night and The Crucible, and DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Baldwin's The Amen Corner. Tristan is represented by About Artists Agency and is a member of Actors' Equity Association. Peace and love to all.

10/17/2021

Graceson Abreu directs A Love Letter to my Gay Black Beloved Andre Alexander Lancaster written by Nick Hadwika Mwaluko.

Graceson is full of gratitude and honor to be making his directorial debut with MOJOAA. Graceson Abreu Nunez is a Q***r Afro-Latino native New Yorker, born and raised in Harlem to Dominican parents. His body of work encompasses acting, dramaturgy, and performance, with a BFA from Boston University. In addition to traditional Stanislavski and Meisner training, he has studied Physical Theatre (Grotowski, Viewpoints, Gaga) at Boston University, as well as Devised Theatre and Circus Arts (Double Edge Theatre) and Musical Theatre (NYU). Acting; New York; Quince (the Team). Regional Theatre; We the People, Leonara’s World (Double Edge Theatre). Workshop; In the Name Of…, Jubilee 11213, Laughs in Spanish. Dramaturgy; Knead, When the C**k Crows, Little Row Boat, or, Conjecture. Graceson currently lives in Spain working as a teaching artist in Spanish public schools. gracesonabreu.com .an

10/14/2021

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The next episode in this season of Red Clay Plays is A Love Letter to my Gay Black Beloved Andre Alexander Lancaster written by NickHadwikaMwaluko and directed by Graceson Abreu is streaming NOW on all major podcast streaming platforms!