The Collective Artist- Twenty seven year old playwright, actor, director, and producer Reginald Edmund is steadily approaching as the next generation of urban theatre.
With a vision to produce quality thought provoking productions for the next generation of urban theatregoers. The Prince of Urban Theatre was hailed by the Houston Press at age twenty four as the Future of Black Theatre.
At age twenty six he was honored by Rolling Out Magazine, by being named one of Houston's 40 most influential African Americans under the age of 40.
Other works created by Reginald Edmund include, the Silver House Playwright Festival, Silver House Collective Artist Showcase- benefit for Hurricane Katrina/ Rita victims, and Silver House Collective Artist Showcase- Queen of a New Sound, recently Reginald Edmund served as the director for Coffee Colored Dreams and Cheryl West's Before It Hits Home. Reginald Edmund also works as the Festival Producer and the Production Manager for the Silver House Theatre one of Houston's premiere theatrical venues. Currently working to obtain his Master's of Fine Arts in Playwrighting at Ohio University under the mentorship of Charles Smith.
2/29/08 2nd Year MFA Plays at MATC in Kansas City: Kara Dunn's ten-minute, The Risque Root, and Reginald Edmund's Goldielocks received staged readings at the Mid-America Theater Conference in Kansas City.
2/19/08 2nd Year MFA Play in Evanston: Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in Evanston, IL will perform a staged reading of Reginald Edmund's Juneteenth Street on Saturday, March 8th. From the press reliease: "Starting March 8, FJT invites you to join us for our series of theatrical readings by professional Evanston and Chicago playwrights every second Saturday of the month.All performances will take place at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Avenue, at 3:00 p.m."
1/4/08 Three OU MFAs Finalists at Kennedy Center ACTF III in Milwaukee: Bill Zorn and Reggie Edmund, both 2nd year MFAs, and recent alum Laura Jacqmin have each finished in the top six 10-minute plays for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival, to be held in Milwaukee next week. All three will be on hand in Milwaukee to workshop and present their plays. OU has a very strong track record with ACTF awards -- this is the second time in three years that three out of six finalists are OU students. (Note: though faculty member Erik Ramsey is affiliated with ACTF, the plays are judged by outside auditors.) The top six 10-minute plays are selected out of numerous submissions from Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana.
9/19/07 Current MFA and MFA Alum Both at Shades of Black: Current MFA playwright Reginald Edmund, and 2005 MFA alum Aaron Carter both had plays included in the 2007 Shades of Black Theater Festival in Knoxville, Tenessee on September 13th: Aaron Carter's Panther Burn and Reginald Edmund's Goldielock and the Three Bears.
5/4/07 1st-year MFA at Karamu House Theatre's ArenaFest: 1st-year MFA Reggie Edmund's play Redemption of Allah Black will be given two staged readings at Karamu Theater in Cleveland. The first reading is on Wednesday, May 16th at 6pm and the second on Tuesday, May 22nd at 6pm at the Karamu House Theatre's ArenaFest.
3/28/07 1st-year MFA Earns Staged Readings at Houston Theaters: 1st-year playwright Reginald Edmund's play The Redemption of Allah Black will be read at the Country Playhouse New Play Reading Series on April 8th and his play Juneteenth Street will have a staged reading at Ensemble Theater in Houston on April 11th.
To find out more about Reginald Edmund go to:
http://www.ohioplaywriting.org/current.html
http://www.reginaldedmund.com and
http://www.houstonpress.com (Feb 10, 2005 archive)...
