Ja\u2019Michael De\u2019Shawn’s solo play\u00a0The Self-Portrait of the Soul as a Young Man, both written and performed by De’Shawn, will hold two industry readings in NYC this month, with presentations set for October 17 at A.R.T.\/New York and October 19 at Alivn Ailey American Dance Theater. Brandon Rumaker is directing.<\/p>\n
According to press notes, the work “follows a weary young man as he encounters a lost soul in a foreign land and is thrust into a journey through blood memories that forces him to unearth the source of wounds he didn\u2019t know he carried.”\u00a0These presentations follow an intimate reading at A.R.T.\/New York that was held earlier this year. A\u00a0workshop production performed at Italy’s Atelier Teatro Fisico, winning the company’s Tot\u00f2 Award for innovation, conceptual originality, and a fresh approach to comedy and drama.<\/p>\n
A multi-hyphenate artist, De’Shawn has been seen on NYC stages in such works as\u00a0Kill Floor,\u00a0Casta,\u00a0The Afterparty,\u00a0Delivery, and\u00a0TwentyEight. As a dancer, he has performed work by\u00a0Ian DaSilva, Maguette Camara, Lisa Johnson-Willingham, Earl Mosley, Ron K. Brown, Matthew Rushing, and Maguette Camara.<\/p>\n
Taji Senior serves as dramaturg. Rumaker and Adrienne Dawes are serving as associate producers on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ja\u2019Michael De\u2019Shawn’s solo play\u00a0The Self-Portrait of the Soul as a Young Man, both written and performed by De’Shawn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-366934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}