Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop

BRTW exists to disrupt any and all oppressive systems that marginalize Black people using narrative and performance as a methodology to recenter Black people and experiences. With economic, social, educational, healthcare, housing, and political injustice facing our community, BRTW aims to tackle the issues that impact us while becoming a beacon for Black opportunity within the arts. 

What We Do

Performance

• We create and produce original performances that respond to the complex nature of anti-Blackness. Through a variety of lenses, BRTW interrogates systems of inequity through drama, comedy, poetry, and satire.

Education

• BRTW also creates original pieces for colleges, universities, museums, and cultural organizations. With its original commission piece, REVOLUTION, BRTW examined the heritage of anti-Black violence in the wake of the massacre at Mother Emmanuel AME. During a tour of colleges throughout the Northeast, BRTW members hosted in-depth talk-backs about the key narrative points, historical references, and parallels to true events in the narrative. We also host customized workshops designed to help students of all ages interrogate current events through a historical lens. At the end of the workshop session, students create their own short narratives that examine systems of inequity through their imagined characters’ perspectives. 

Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop, LLC  is a Brooklyn-based collective founded in summer 2015. We are dedicated to developing, producing, incubating, and promoting Black art and artists who actively engage with justice in their work. BRTW recognizes that we live in a world rife with injustice, including but not limited to those that impact individuals and communities due to:

• race
• gender
• sexuality
• religion
• disability
• language and literacy
• court involvement
• economic status
• nation of origin

BRTW’s work brings artists and audiences into conversation and community action, centering Black intersectional identities and experiences. 

We accomplish this mission in the monthly Melanated Mondays, our upcoming podcast, artist services, live productions, events, commissions, and workshops that create, edit, and remix artistic representations of revolutionary strategies. In accessible narrative, performance, conversation, and media BRTW seeks to create art as revolution.