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SBT @ USC

SBT Founder and Executive Director Sophina Brown had a wonderful time as Guest Lecturer for the second year Theatre M.F.A. students at University of Southern California. Professor Michele Shay’s class on self taping was the perfect opportunity for Sophina to touch on …

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The Image Monster X SBT

On MLK Day, we partnered with The Image Monster to hold space for Black actresses: to laugh, to release, to heal, and to speak freely about the industry and self-image. Thank you to the incredible founder and CEO of The Image Monster, …

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SBT 2025 Impact Report

2025 was an incredible year! Check out our Impact Report and all the wonderful successes our community created. Click below!

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SBT Talk Back for Welcome to the Blue Swan

Support Black Theatre was so happy to support PC3 Productions’ first LA reading of Welcome to the Blue Swan by Paris Crayton lll. We moderated an audience talk back with three incredible mental health experts โ€” Nakeya Fields, Dr. Allycin Powell-Hicks, and …

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Fall of Freedom: Breaking Ground

Support Black Theatre joined in Fall of Freedom, a national movement of artistic expression and solidarity. On November 21โ€“22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will hosted exhibitions, performances, and public events that channeled the …

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Courage Through Creation Workshop

We hosted our first Courage Through Creation series workshop for students in partnership with Outside In Theatre’s production of In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat, written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith. Dr. Gregory King, SBT Director of Education and Research, led an …

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SBT @ UCLA Listening Session

For the last three years, Support Black Theatre has been a part of UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television Orientation! We thoroughly enjoy this special time with students and faculty. This year we hosted an informative listening session with all present. …

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A Great Day In Black Theatre!

In celebration of this yearโ€™s Black Theatre Day, our friends at Oshana Arts, Black Creators Collective, and Bottle Tree Theatre Company hosted a historic moment for LA Black theatre practitioners, on Saturday, September 13th at 1pm in front of the Nate Holden …

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Inaugural L.A. Black Creators Summit

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐˜†.โฃโฃ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿพ Thank you to everyone who made our first-ever ๐—Ÿ.๐—”. ๐—•๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ a huge success!โฃ And thank you to our wonderful partners at The CRAFT Institute and African American Shakespeare Company. โฃWe are …

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AWNV Winners Take New York!

Our August Wilson New Voices monologue competition winners, Melissa Valdivia and Willow Chambers, took New York City by storm! In addition to their cash prizes, SBT sent them and their family members on an all expense paid trip to The Big Apple. …

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