A Deep Conversation With Germono Toussaint

Germono Toussaint is a multi-hyphenate, multi-award winning composer, arranger, playwright, and  producer. He is one of the founding playwrights of the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, the Founding Artistic Director of A Mile In My Shoes, Inc., and owner of Brown Liquor Music, LLC.His plays have been featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival, Horse Trade Theater Group, The Drafts Fest, All Out Arts Play Festival, New York Madness, The Fire This Time Festival, National Black Theater’s Keep Soul Alive reading series, and 48 Hours…in Harlem.He has over 20 years experience creating, arranging, and producing music for independent artists, theater productions, and concerts like: Ritual (Stanley Bennett Clay), B-Boy Blues (James Earl Hardy), Sistas: The Musical (Dorothy Marcic), Bring The Beat Back (Derek McPhatter), Hoodoo Love (Katori Hall), The Lost Boys Live at 54 Below (Dyllón Burnside), “Brand New Day” (J Keys), “Love Overdue” (Arissa), “Out Loud” (Crystal Monee Hall), and Project 1:11 (a collaboration with Harriett D. Foy). His autobiographical album, Brown Liquor & Blessed Oil, was released on July 4, 2021 and he is currently developing his second original, Afro-futurist, extended reality musical The Last Gatekeeper. Toussaint has had artist residencies at Tofte Lake Center, The Sheen Center, Rhymes Over Beats, The Tank, and Hi-Arts. He was a semifinalist for the 2021 National Playwrights Conference, the 2022 National Music Theater Conference, and a recipient of Broadway producer Ken Davenport’s Dr. Kenny Encouragement Fund Scholarship.https://germonotoussaint.comInstagram @toussaint4u