St. James is honored to host acclaimed director Vickie Washington for a special presentation and discussion of Flat Rock Playhouse’s new Black Box play, The Mountaintop, a fictional re-imagining of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last day. This event is open and free to the public.
Washington is a theater artist and cultural worker based in Dallas and working everywhere. Directing credits include “Whitelisted,” “Blood Knot,” “What to Send Up When It Goes Down,” “Hairy and Sherri,” “The Mountaintop,” “School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play,” “Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been…,” “Fences,” “Passing Strange,” “Single Black Female,” “Sunset Baby,” “Fabulation,” and “Angela’s Mixtape.”
She has garnered two Irma P. Hall Black Theatre Awards and recognition from the “Dallas Observer” for the world premiere of Jonathan Norton’s “Mississippi Goddamn.” Stage credits include The TEAM’s “Primer for a Failed Superpower,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” “Dreaming Emmett,” “Crowns,” “…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi,” “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” “Piano Lesson,” “Contribution,” “From the Mississippi Delta,” and “The Tempest.” On-camera in “Random Acts of Flyness” (HBO) and indie films “Meta Care,” “They Charge for the Sun,” “Swimming in Your Skin Again” (official Sundance selection), and “Steps of Faith.” vickie is founder and producing director of r-t-w~ reading the writers, a readers theater performance organization.