Accomplished Playwrights Attend Black Pack Party 2016

From left to right; author; Q.B. Wells; me; award winning playwright, Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert; playwright, Ilesa Duncan; and Kevin Roberts owner of Azizi Bookstore (the physical store is now closed).

This was a fun table.  I already knew Kevin and Q.B., but this was the first time I met Tsehaye and Ilesa. They were both very interesting women.  Ilesa is the Pegasus Theatre Chicago's artistic director and is adapting Charles Johnson's Middle Passage. As mention Tsehaye she serves a playwright-in-residence at Chicago State University.  She is the recipient of the New Voices and Visions Award (Louisiana State University) among others.

Please forgive the quality of the image, normally we have a photographer taking shots and we even do a massive group photo, but this year there was no group shot or a professional photographer it was just fun, food, drinks, and camaraderie :-)