Becoming Othello: A Black Girl's Journey at The Ware Center

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A tour-de-force living memoir and solo show! Chronicling the trials and triumphs of her life­—her joy-filled, tumultuous youth in Harlem, her fateful encounter with a troop of Shakespearean actors, and her gender-flipped journey to playing Shakespeare’s Othello—Debra Ann Byrd bares her soul in this vulnerable, personal, and resonant story of perseverance, discovery, and unconditional love.
 
This engagement is funded through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.