On America: A Performance of James Baldwin's "The White Problem"

Featuring

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  Reggie D. White

  Reggie D. White

  Reggie D. White is a New York based multidisciplinary art-ivist who most recently appeared in Matthew Lopez’s two-part epic The Inheritance on Broadway. Other acting credits include NYTW, The Public Theater, 59E59, Arden Theatre, Berkeley Rep, and La Jolla Playhouse. As a director, his work has been featured at The Public Theater, Atlantic Acting School, NY Winterfest, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Berkeley Playhouse, AlterTheatre Ensemble, and more. He is an alumni of Atlantic Acting School, where he now serves as a faculty member, and the new Artistic Director of Student Productions, a recipient of the TBA TITAN Award, the TCG Fox Fellowship, and is a company member of The Williams Project, a living wage theatre company. He is currently co-writing a play with Lauren Gunderson and is the co-host of the comedy podcast, “What’s The Tea?”

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  Raelle Myrick-Hodges

  Raelle Myrick-Hodges

  Raelle Myrick-Hodges has worked as a stage director for over 25 years and a producer/curator for more than 10. She is the founder of Azuka Theater in Philadelphia (over 25 years). As a practicing theater artist, Raelle had directed play genres ranging from classical work to interdisciplinary ensembles/presentations. Her regional work has been seen at Playmaker Repertory (NC), The National Black Theater, The Public Theater- NY; Magic Theater, Santa Cramong others Shakespeare, California Shakespeare, CalArts/REdcat (CA). She has worked with artists such as Geoffrey Arend, Yasiin Bey, Miriam Hyman, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jeffrey Wright, among others. As a Curator/Presenter Raelle has presented work by Denis O’Hare, The Rude Mechanicals, Meshell Ndgeocello, and other interdisciplinary works. Though not from a theatrically academic background, Raelle is currently a professor at The Atlantic Acting School, NYC Brown University MFA Theater program and she has been a guest artist in the undergraduate PACE University theater program. She is currently preparing a new performance work about her father to premiere in this season’s upcoming Under the Radar Festival, directing the in-development musical by The Illustrious Blacks.

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  Erroll McDonald

  Chair of the Board of Directors at The Center for Fiction

  Erroll McDonald

  Chair of the Board of Directors at The Center for Fiction

  Erroll McDonald is a Vice President, Executive Editor in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group of Penguin Random House. Among the authors he has edited and published are: James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, Italo Calvino, Sandra Cisneros, Stanley Crouch, Friedrich Durenmatt, Marjorie Garber, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael R. Gordon, Alan Hollinghurst, Simon Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margo Jefferson, Randall Kennedy, Klaus Kinski, Laila Lalami, Fran Lebowitz, Arthur Levitt, Daniel E. Lieberman, David Malouf, Wangari Matthai, Timothy Mo, Toni Morrison, Kary Mullis, Albert Murray, Bao Nihn, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Posner, V.S. Pritchett, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Wole Soyinka, Colm Toibin, Robert Farris Thompson, and John Edgar Wideman.

  Erroll McDonald was born in Limon, Costa Rica. He graduated from Yale College summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with Distinction, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He was for two years a Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature of the Yale Graduate School. He holds an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has been a lecturer at Yale and is an adjunct professor at Columbia. A former trustee of PEN America, he lives in New York City and Goshen, Connecticut.