- 297 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
This groundbreaking collection of curated interviews provides an opportunity to hear from Black and Global Majority actors and artists working internationally as they discuss their careers to date, from what they wish they had known to the pitfalls they are still learning to navigate.
Structured around the classic actor-training concept of the 'given circumstances' – a tool that an actor might use to determine the wider context of their journey from page to stage to screen – the book offers up rare, multi-perspective insights into approaches to actor training, professional experiences, career choices, narrative voices and creative process. How this is experienced – in an industry that is still defining how Black and Global majority presence translates into visibility and power – is a deep abiding theme that resonates throughout.
Interviewees include Noma Dumezweni, James Earl Jones, Indhu Rubasingham MBE, David Oyelowo OBE, Fisayo Akinade, Sheila Atim MBE, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and many more.
Structured around the classic actor-training concept of the 'given circumstances' – a tool that an actor might use to determine the wider context of their journey from page to stage to screen – the book offers up rare, multi-perspective insights into approaches to actor training, professional experiences, career choices, narrative voices and creative process. How this is experienced – in an industry that is still defining how Black and Global majority presence translates into visibility and power – is a deep abiding theme that resonates throughout.
Interviewees include Noma Dumezweni, James Earl Jones, Indhu Rubasingham MBE, David Oyelowo OBE, Fisayo Akinade, Sheila Atim MBE, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and many more.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Foreword Dr Sharrell D. Luckett
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction – Pamela Jikiemi
- 1 James Earl Jones, Paterson Joseph, David Oyelowo OBE and Priyanga Burford
- 2 Lucian Msamati, Noma Dumezweni, Jenny Jules and Colin Salmon
- 3 Aliyah Odoffin, Phoebe Campbell, Jamael Westman, Caleb Obediah and Shakeel Haakim
- 4 Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ´jọ´, Fisayo Akinade, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and Martins Imhangbe
- 5 Nicole Brewer, Dr Karen Tomlin, Indhu Rubasingham MBE, Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE, Joel Trill and Heather Basten
- 6 Sheila Atim MBE, Kit Young, Sara Zwangobani and Abraham Popoola
- 7 Jennifer Lim, Cyril Nri, Cornell John and Leo Wringer
- Epilogue