Michael Oluokon. Photo by Emily Akers. Image courtesy the artist.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators – currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, William Burke, and Machel Ross – the selected playwrights receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, CPR is partnering for the third season to co-present this program, which unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Michael Oluokun: Have You Ever Thought About…
Comedian and Professor Emeritus in Bisexual Studies, Michael Oluokun, welcomes you to a comedic crash course in the portentous power of proliferous pondering. Come thru!
Michael Oluokun (any pronouns) is a writer, comedian, actor, and featherless biped who performs all around New York City.
Additional Fall 2023 Starr Reading Series programs:
Weds, December 6 at 7 P.M.
Nia Calloway: Earth is Not One of Your Lil Friends
Weds, December 13 at 7 P.M.
lily gonzales: I must belong somewhere
Five additional writers – Avi Amon, Aeon Andreas, Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Utkarsh Rajawat, and Genevieve Simon – will share work as part of the Starr Reading Series in Spring 2024, also co-presented with The Bushwick Starr at CPR. More details to be announced.