79. INTERVIEW: Katrina D. RiChard

Hello listeners! This week, we chat with playwright, actor, producer and director Katrina D. RiChard. Katrina digs deep into playwriting by sharing her thoughts, experience, and encouragement to write. Her new play “Call for the Wailing Women” will premiere as part of Black Lives Black Words International Project, ‘Plays for the People’, an online play season celebrating the diversity of the African-American and African experience in today’s world. Be sure to check it out! Katrina D. RiChard has performed on stages across the city of Chicago and the Chicagoland area as well as worked behind the scenes as a writer, producer, and director. She was born and bred on the South Side of Chicago. The city continues to hold a special place in her heart and is one of the primary places she writes about. Katrina served Chicago Public Schools for over a decade teaching High School Social Science, and she uses her history background in her writing as well. She is working on her MFA in Dramatic Writing at the University of Southern California (USC) where she was recently awarded the Joan Beber Playwriting Award. Her mission is to illuminate marginalized voices, tell stories that have never been told before, and tell classic stories with a fresh perspective. Learn more about Black Lives Black Words, be sure to visit the website: www.blacklivesblackwords.org/get-tickets For tickets to Katrina's "Call for the Wailing Woman" (Oct. 22-25, 2020) www.eventbrite.com/e/blbw-call-for…ts-108390868004 To learn more about Katrina and her work, be sure to follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrinadrich GLISTENS: Sarah - Saturday Night Live, Chris Rock's monologue / "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann Sam - Jennifer Jacobs, a reporter for Bloomberg News who broke the story about Hope Hicks testing positive Katrina - Country Music / "Honey Bee" - Blake Shelton ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected] For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com