For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf

Awards and Recognition: 
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 
Certificate of Merit in Direction, Ensemble and Costume Design 

As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion and domestic violence are tackled.

​Written by Ntzaoke Shange 
Directed by: Nigel Semaj 
Stage Managed by Nathan Kaczmarek 
Scenic Design by: Paul Sweet 

Lighting Design by: Victoria Ashmore
Costume Design by: Kati Stankovich

Choreography by Brittany Wynn and Nigel Semaj. 
Sound Design by: Christopher Hoffman ​

April 8-11, 2015 
Lycoming College 
Mary L. Welch Theatre 

Cast:  Asha Bryant, Hershey Millner, Shannon Goodman, Jetta Harrison, Jade Tankard, Cinnamin Quattlebaum, Yvette Brown 

This production was  selected for possible consideration to travel to the KCACTF Region II Festival 
This production was produced soley by students, the cast, crew and creative team were all students. 

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