The Juilliard School Drama Division and its Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program present the second of two 2018 Houghton Festival Readings.

Donja R. Love Photo by Drew Shade
The North Star written by Donja R. Love and directed by Malika Oyetimein was presented at The Pershing Square Signature Center Ford Foundation Studio Theatre December 8th, 2018 at 7:00 pm and December 9th, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Donja R. Love is an Afro-Queer playwright, poet, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. He’s the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Award. He’s the Lark’s 2016 Van Lier New Voices Playwrighting Fellow, The Playwrights Realm’s 2016/2017 Writing Fellow, and the 2011 Philadelphia Adult Grand Slam Poetry Champion. His work has been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Rising Circle Theatre, The Lark, and The Playwrights Realm. He’s had production at Manhattan Theatre Club (Sugar in Our Wounds) and Atlantic Theater Company (Fireflies). He’s the co0host of Off Book, a podcast on Black theatre; and he’s the co-founder of The Each-Other Project, an organization that helps build community and provide visibility, through art and advocacy, for LGBTQ People of Color. Select stage plays include The Love* Plays and soft.
CAST
Dohneata…………………………..Maechi Aharanwa
André…………………………………Anthony Bowden
Emmanuel…………………..Lee Edward Colston II
Rashaad…………………………………….Toney Goins
Hassan…………………….Brandon Mendez Homer
North…………………………………..Lorenzo Jackson
Kiki………………………………………..Jayme Lawson
Stage Directions…………….. Hannan Rose Caton