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Thank you for supporting MaineDrama Productions! View this email in your browser MaineDrama Productions Monthly Newsletter A one-stop shop for all your MaineDrama business! UPCOMING PROJECT MDP is looking for a few good women.  We are preparing for our next project set to premiere in 2014 in the DC area!  This collaborative project will feature 6 women, spoken-word artists discussing their love/hate relationship with their period!  Yes, their period...the good, bad, ugly, and treacherous!  If you know a talented woman, 18+, that would fit the bill, contact us at mainedramapro@gmail.com for more information!  We’re excited about it…and we think you should be too!  FEATURED EMERGING ARTISTS OF THE MONTH Farah Lawal is an accomplished actress, poet, and playwright. She holds three Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Maryland-College Park in Theatre Performance, Criminology & Criminal Justice, and African American Studies. Farah has performed with various theatre companies including dog & pony dc, American Century Theater, 500 Clown, The Inkwell, and The Saartjie Project. She performed her one-woman show, So Do You Love Me Yet? in the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival and her poetry was published in the anthology, Liberated Muse Volume 1: How I Freed My Soul. Farah’s performances have been praised in The Washington Post,Washington City Paper, The Washington Examiner and DC Theatre Scene. Farah currently creates work with her theatre company, Wild Women Theatre and is a Resident Teaching Artist at an arts organization in Washington, DC. To learn more about Farah, please visit her website, www.FarahLawal.com or email her at farah@farahlawal.com. Thony Mena is excited to be part of the expanding theatre family in DC. Born in Dominican Republic and raised in the DMV area, Thony appreciates being surrounded by the different people, art, and ideas that influence him everyday. He can be seen next as ensemble in Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Recent credits include Forum Theatre's production of Clementine in the Lower Nine. Ensemble in Shakespeare Theatre Co. production of All's Well That Ends Well. Odd Act Theatre Group's production of Ice Cream Musical: The Non-Musical Musical at the London, Ontario Fringe Festival. Pointless Theatre's production of Minnie the Moocher. Theatre Slam 2.0, The Miseducation at the Intersections Festival in Atlas. Also, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in How The Money Goes. Arena Stage credits include ensemble in Ruined and the Edward Albee Festival in the staged reading of Finding the Sun. He performed at the Capital Fringe Festival in How the Money Goes and has done a staged reading at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage festival for 24.7.365. He has also worked with MaineDrama Productions in their productions of Count It All Joy and Unheard. Thony has a BA in Theatre from the University of Maryland. Visit his website at www.ThonyMena.com or email him attmena52@gmail.com. MAINEDRAMA PRODUCTIONS SUPPORTS...   MDP is working with Ambassador Theater on their upcoming show of Antiwords. The show will run from September 21-22, 2013. Václav Havel's celebrated single-act play Audience explores several existential themes. However, one line of questioning predominates: the issue of individual integrity, morality and responsibility. This thread can be traced throughout Havel's work, encompassing many connections such as “my work and my self, my self and my responsibility for my work, my self as an integral part of my work.” From these relationships derive the story ofAntiwords.  Purchase your tickets online today! We all live extremely busy lives, and sometimes we don't take the time to rehabilitate the pain we have experienced. It seems that there are not enough hours in the day to take the time to enhance our emotional, physical and spiritual state of mind. In this book, Kanika Tolver will provide not only her personal experiences, but also step-by-step instructions on how to avoid overdosing on your personal pain, people in your life, and the power you acquire.  Check out her website to learn more about speaking engagements and how to purchase Life Rehab! GIVE BACK Donate/Invest Today! Facebook Website Twitter Email Instagram Blogger LinkedIn Copyright © 2013 MaineDrama Productions LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Tune in Tonight!

So, if you've never heard me talk about my mentor, Latasha Kennedy, I don't know where you've been. She's amazing and has been such a lifeline for me as I've journeyed through this whole MaineDrama process. 

Latasha is an actor, writer, and philanthropist based in New York (the actor's mecca).  She's also a wife and mother..trying to balance it all.  And she's not the only actor I know that mirrors that same background.

Tonight she will be a panelist on a web talk show called Celi's Hangout, an interactive web talk show dedicated to empowering artists and hosted by Franceli Chapman.  If you don't have anything planned, tune in!

The episode tonight is called, Working Parents: The Actor's Grind.  They will be discussing with other moms and dads in entertainment how they balance parenting and their acting careers.  

The show airs live TONIGHT at 7:30pm via Google Hangout through Google + & YouTube. 

Logistics:

In order to view the interview, you must join the CASTING ACTORS OF COLOR GOOGLE PLUS CIRCLE. You may kindly do so by clicking HERE.  You can also access the hangout via the Google+ Hangouts App on your smartphone.

Once you join, you'll be able to watch the interview live as well as submit questions to the panelists, including me!  If you're on Facebook or Twitter, please share and RT! Her social media info is below. 

It should be an interesting time!

FB: facebook.com/latashamkennedy
Twitter: @iamlmk

Looking for a Few Good Women!

MDP is working on our next project and we want you to be involved. We are currently looking for women spoken-word artists to work with us on our next project for 2014. We need women 18 and older to be a part of a collaborative project. Are you interested or know of anyone that may be a good fit for our work? Send them our way. They can email us at mainedramapro@gmail.com for more info!

We're excited about it and think you should be too!

We're Back!

Sorry guys, I've been a bit MIA for a while...not a good look.  But just because I haven't been posting a lot lately, we have definitely been busy. Since our last post, we held the premiere for Unheard the Film.  Too exciting.  While there were a bit of bumps and hiccups along the way, it was such an amazing experience.  Check out the recap video below:



Since then we have been pushing Unheard and trying to get it submitted into various film festivals.  We got such rave reviews after the premiere and we know that we have a huge success story on our hand...we know that we are going to help a lot of people.  So, don't stop talking about it! We haven't.

Stay tuned...this is only the beginning.

Check out my latest interview!

I had the pleasure of meeting a woman named Rachael Albers.  She is amazing and does some great work in Mexico.  She started an organization called RKA ink, but her true passion lies in the activist work that she does.  I urge you to read her bio and check out her website.  Support her work!  I will!

And read the interview she did on me and her shout out to Unheard.

http://www.rkaink.com/2013/01/14/awesomepreneurs-we-love-tramaine-brathwaite/

Enough Said!

Stay tuned on how to purchase your tickets!

A Million Thanks!

Thank you to everyone that came out to Unheard the Film's first Charity Happy Hour!  It was a huge success and that was because of you.  No matter how you gave, you have put us that much closer to finishing this project and continuing the movement!  Thank you!

Please follow our journey and stay in tuned to how things are unfolding.  We will, of course, keep you updated on our progress and the premiere of Unheard!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnheardTheFilm
Facebook: www.facebook.com/unheardthefilm
Blog: http://unheardthefillm.blogspot.com/


If you would still like to give or tell others how they can contribute, we accept donations through PayPal at mainedramapro@gmail.com.

For those that were not able to see our new trailer, you can view it HERE!

Also, we want to thank our partners the DC Rape Crisis Center, The City Vault, and Candid Focus Photography.  Please check out The City Vault's latest project and show them some support.  I've posted information about their upcoming Adult Play Date below!

Again, thank you and please continue to spread the word about Unheard!  Take a stand!


Join The City Vault for ADULT PLAY DATE: A CHARITABLE AFFAIR on August 25, 2012 at The Yards Park in Washington DC. Teams of 4 will compete against each other in a crazy obstacle course, wacky relay races, tug-of-war, and much more while raising funds for The Hope Scholarship. You can register as a Team or single at www.thecityvault.com.

Find out who has already signed up: https://www.facebook.com/events/362074183847712.

Free parking, snacks, beverages, and giveaways provided for participants...

Raffle Prizes provided by: The Washington Redskins, The Washington Capitals, Fuze, Foot Locker, Liberty Mountain Resorts, Hair Cuttery, Pev's Paintball, The laser Tag Group, Trapeze School New York (TSNY) Washington, 300 Shady Grove bowling, EatSmart Products, Go Ape USA,  Joy of Motion Dance Center, Hydros Bottle, Pride Socks, Custom Fitness Concepts, Blue Mountain Vineyard, and the list is still growing...

Please note that all participant must be 18+ and there will be no registration on the day of the event.