The Black Narrative

The Billie Holiday Theatre presents the next edition of its new theater series Black Narrative in collaboration with the award-winning New Black Fest. Launched in fall 2024, the series celebrates the power of Black storytelling and the New Black Fest celebrates, advocates and showcases diverse and provocative work in a festival format of Black theater artists from across the African Diaspora. Curated by Keith Josef Adkins, the New Black Fest at the Billie Holiday Theatre will bring together Brooklyn-based theatermakers, filmmakers and thinkers for a collective demonstration of empowerment, innovation and joy. From an odyssey through a Haitian-American woman's experience in America to a Cameroonian-American artist's riff on perseverance to what it means to be Black, American and conscious in the world today, this two-day festival will explore the importance of storytelling that gives voice to the African Diasporic experience.