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Thanks to the success of our June event, we’re excited bring you another installment of Beta Fest, version 1.2! Join us on Thursday, August 6 at 7pm on the coLAB Arts website (www.colab-arts.org) as three creative teams present new works of live digital storytelling using different online platforms for performance and interactivity. All proceeds from the event go directly towards the participating artists!
This is a “pay-what-you-can” ticketed event. Use the form below to register your attendance. Once you submit, a pop up window will include a link to make your donation. We suggest the following persons-per-computer ticket levels, but more is always appreciated:
One person $5 / Two people $10 / Three people $15 / Four people $20
Featuring new work from LaChrisha C. Brown, Jerrell L. Henderson, and Chris Sanders.
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LaChrisha C. Brown is an actor, writer and vocalist in NYC. As a result of her work with Donkeysaddle Projects (There is A Field) and coLAB Arts (Life, Death, Life Again) she has been a pioneer in the development of new works and a facilitator of political conversation inspired by Social Justice Theater. Film credits: Pillow Talk (Lyric), Teacher Problems (Amy Lovett), MADD (Detective), Sub-Par (Creator). Theater credits: Richard III (Lady Anne), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Mattie Campbell), For colored girls… (Lady in Red), Peter and Wendy (Tinker Bell).
Jerrell L. Henderson is a Director, Puppeteer, and an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Chicago State University. Recent directing credits include Mlima’s Tale with Griffin Theatre (Jeff Award Nomination for Direction and Best Play) and Thurgood with Walnut Street Theatre. Other credits include The River with BoHo Theatre, Untitled with Inis Nua Theatre (Barrymore Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction of a Play) and Something Like A War: A New Musical with 11th Hour Theatre. His shadow play adaptation, 3 American Myths: A Riff in Shadow & Light in 3 Rhythmic Movements was a finalist for a 2019 Jim Henson Foundation Grant. As an assistant director, Jerrell has worked with The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre. He received an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University, is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab (2012), an Artistic Associate of Black Lives Black Words, and a Henson Foundation sponsored participant at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Puppetry Conference (2020).
Chris Sanders, a native of New Jersey, was most recently in Noises Off at Theatre 3 in Dallas, TX. Their other theatre credits include Frankenstein , A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center, 2016), The Learned Ladies, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Our Town (George Street Playhouse), Artist Descending a Staircase (Amphibian Stage Productions), Obama-ology, Split Second (Jubilee Theatre), Straight White Men (Second Thought Theatre), and the World Premiere of The Monarch (Soul Rep and Echo Theatres). Chris teaches Theatre at the University of Texas at Dallas. Chris earned their BA in Theatre from Kean University and their MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University. Chris Sanders is a member of AEA and represented by the Mary Collins Agency.
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