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This week s Theater Talk (03/05/2021) with Yao Kahlil Newkirk
Yao Kahlil Newkirk, the new Artistic Director at the Paul Robeson Theatre on Masten Avenue in Buffalo, brings installation background as well as traditional theater experience.
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With a BFA and MFA in Theater Performance, Buffalo native Newkirk is currently working on his Ph.D. at UB in Transnational Studies. His work focuses on Original Stories and trans-racial/intraracial identities.
He was mentored by Iris Stevenson, and spent considerable time based in Los Angeles as what he calls one of the Sister Act kids on tour.
For a sample of his installation concepts, watch his video of I WISH A N ^ WOULD
If you visit Anthony s blog, TheaterTalkBuffalo.Com, you can read the following:
Marc-Jon Filippone, a seven-time Artie Award nominated actor, with an acerbic wit and vivid personality has died from COVID-19 complicated by diabetes.
Once a fixture on the Western New York musical theater scene, Filippone played a wide array of character roles. The Artie nominated performances alone demonstrate an impressive range: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well ., Baby, Mack and Mabel, Romance/Romance, Putting it Together, A New Brain, andWorking. Other memorable roles include numerous appearances in The Fantasticks, as the chairman in Mystery of Edwin Drood, and as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. He worked everywhere from Desiderio s Dinner Theatre to Theatre of Youth.