September 9, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Sparking Dialogue Through Drama uses the performing arts to start family conversations about socially relevant topics.
Designed for adults and children to attend together, this program begins with a reading of Candrice Jones’ play Cynthia’s Place followed by a discussion with a panel of artists and experts.
Ideal for children in third through eighth grades, Cynthia’s Place is a 10-minute play commissioned by AMFA that follows two kids on a grand time-traveling adventure to meet Althea Gibson.
Althea Gibson was a multi-talented American tennis player and professional golfer best known for being the first Black person to win a Grand Slam tennis title.
Candrice Jones is an award-winning playwright, and AMFA is thrilled for new audiences to experience her work.
About Candrice Jones
Mother of Zora and Steinberg awardee playwright, Candrice Jones is from Dermott, Arkansas.
A Voices of Our Nation’s Arts Foundation (VONA) Playwriting alum and CalArts Critical Studies MFA recipient, she has been a fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, MacDowell’s Colony of the Arts, and is scheduled to be the Djerassi Resident Playwright in 2024.
Her play, FLEX, was developed at VONA, Ground Floor, the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, and received productions at TheaterSquared and Theatrical Outfit.
In the 2020-21 season, Candrice received virtual commissions from People’s Light Theater and Actors Theater of Louisville as well as reading opportunities from Theatrical Outfit, National New Play Network, and San Francisco Playhouse.
In the spring of 2022, Candrice’s play, A Medusa Thread, was developed in UC Santa Barbara’s Launchpad Series.
Candrice currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she lives and works on new material. She is excited to be writing new material to be presented at AMFA.
Sparking Dialogue Through Drama is supported in part by Rebsamen Fund and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
