https://www.cleavonsmith.com/home daily 1.0 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/06405d29-07b6-4ff4-a2d0-96e0e69b7fe1/Cleavon_Smith_for_web+%282%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1602722866917-NQQTEFAST0RY6V6MHQPN/You-Eat-What-You-Kill-scaled-1.jpg Home - Cathleen Riddley, Michael Asberry, and Anthony Williams in “You Eat What You Kill” from the Best of PlayGround. Photo by mellophoto.com As a playwright I center the question and honor the questioner; I give attention to language, cadence, and the occasion for song; I aspire to unthread conventions of community in order to reveal the authentic individual making and finding a space in which they belong in that community; I work to model the brave conversations necessary for true connection; I laugh a lot; I recognize affinity and solidarity are not the same and that the difference between the two is the source of both conflict and a path to liberation; I know that however small we are in the cosmos, we are not insignificant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1602101412176-5Y85RV9X88HL0KZGSH46/DS5_0283.JPG Home - I believe in theatre as a space of dynamic, interactive inquiry, engagement, and meaning making. I believe in Black Lives Matter. And I believe the time is now. Jasmine Williams and Dezi Solèy in The Last Sermon of Sister Imani. (Photo by Jay Yamada) https://www.cleavonsmith.com/plays daily 0.75 2020-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1601922230588-BJQVP6Q40NK9PDCQJ29R/betweenus.justoneday-731x1024.jpg Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1602253624259-AY18I2XNY7U4TS2LKFXP/vs-2-500x500.JPG Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1602253672266-2MPH5UJIYUXLEDE8TEB8/37947E8A-0CB6-45DB-BF2A-E4DECB9928A0.JPG Plays https://www.cleavonsmith.com/about daily 0.75 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f747dc73c353a6c701c4fe3/1602173199668-61V7ZU2GCON7AQMKNEKZ/IMG_0667.jpg