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The Robey Theatre Company presents a Live Reading of Buffalo Meets the Thunder by Pauletta Oliver
February 18 • 3:00 pm
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The Robey Theatre Company presents
Buffalo Meets the Thunder by Pauletta Oliver
Directed by Ben Guillory
The Robey Theatre Company presents a live reading of Buffalo Meets the Thunder. Enjoy the day with the works of America’s best up-and-coming Black playwright, Pauletta Oliver, and creative artists.
The reading will be followed by a Q&A.
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A donation of $10.00 is suggested, click on the box for Buffalo Meets the Thunder. Your support helps Robey’s ongoing work to present stories of the global Black experience, featuring the work of Black playwrights and actors.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Che Guevara said a true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love, and it’s impossible for a genuine revolutionary to lack this quality. . .
Buffalo Meets the Thunder is a gumbo, a dark stew consisting of a strongly-flavored stock of Buffalo Soldiers, Pancho Villa, Jack Johnson, Charles Deslondes, a Storyville brothel owner, a modiste and a couple engaged to be married, seasoned further by the Holy Trinity of 1917, New Orleans and Mexico and, lastly, thicken by the roux of Mardi Gras.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Pauletta Oliver was born in Los Angeles, California. In the sixth grade, her first play, A Bum’s Thanksgiving, won first place among seventh and eighth graders. Pauletta’s works include her short play Policy or Death, which won an award from the National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts. Her Southern Gothic play A Dove for Lizette Malveaux was produced by Ava Brewster Turner of Upstage Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after winning the theater’s writing competition. Melvin Johnson’s Nesona First Short Play Festival produced her play Pecans on 131st and Lenox.
Pauletta was a finalist of the USC Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller writing program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts for her play Dutch & Bailey. Pauletta has also studied screenwriting at UCLA, LACC, LASC, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center among survivors of the Jewish Holocaust.
Pauletta’s play Aunt Bernice’s Shotgun House in the Ninth Ward with the Blue Door about Hurricane Katrina garnered the interest of The Robey Theatre’s Company playwriting program, and she eventually joined Robey’s Theatre program.
Pauletta is a graduate of Mothers of Sorrows Elementary School. St. Michael’s Girls’ High School in Los Angeles, and earned a B.A. and M.A. from California State University Dominguez Hills. She is also the proud mother of Tamiko, the third reigning Miss California USA and runner-up in the Miss USA competition, and her daughter Jasmine, who recently became a nurse. Pauletta is especially proud of her four grandchildren, Jaxon, Myles, Dylan, and Amelia.