Juneteenth Blues Cabaret
book by Lorna Littleway
June 3-5
A theatrical concert, set in Harlem's Cotton Club, of 24 classic blues songs including “Summertime”, "Sweet Georgia Brown", “Stormy Weather” and many more. Featuring Guest Artists Thyais Walsh and Sue Lawless.
Lorna Littleway (Juneteenth Blues Cabaret) is a member of the Dramatist Guild and is a 2002 Dramatist Guild Fellow. Her adaptation, August Wilson’s Women, presented March/April ‘10 at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City received critical acclaim in The New York Times as did her play, The Lives of Young Black Folk, presented at the 2005 NYC Fringe Festival. As part of the BOLD JOURNEY Tour, Juneteenth Blues Cabaret has been presented by the Pennyroyal Arts Council at the Alhambra Theater in Hopkinsville, directed by JLT Co-Founder, Kristi Papailler, at the State Historic Theater in Elizabethtown, directed by Sue Lawless, and at Purdue University in Indiana.
Other produced work in New York City includes: Motion and Location, Midtown International Theatre Festival; Young Sistas and Bang! Bang! Bang!, Vital Theatre. Lorna’s plays have been produced regionally: Motion and Location, Luna Sea (San Francisco); If You Love Me, Little Theatre (Dallas), Chocolate Church (Bath, Maine), Rudyard Kipling (Louisville, KY); August in March, Nativity School at St. Boniface; A Collective Piss and the Devil's Beating His Wife, Rudyard Kipling; Kindler Genter Nation, Kentucky Center, Iowa State University; Billy, Lena and The Duke: A Night of Ellington Music!, Galaxy Bistro (Louisville); The Best of the Genius of Ray, Big Hopp’s (Louisville); and Fin'ly Free, Shawnee Park (Louisville.)
Lorna has received new play development grants from the Drama League and the Stage Directors Foundation, and a playwright fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, 2002, as well as grant support for playwriting from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, She is also the recipient of the 2002 Sallie Bingham Award from KFW. Lorna has a MA in playwriting from Goddard College in Vermont.
