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Frank Solomon

FRANK SOLOMON

  

Nationality:    USA
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Jeffrey Solomon (writer-performer) from Allendale County in South Carolina, has toured with his solo plays internationally. His MotherSON premiered at HERE Art Center in New York and he received a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Best Actor for the same performance in Chicago at the Bailiwick Rep. the play had an extended run at Provincetown's U.U. Meeting House Theatre, and has appeared nationally at many venues including Theatre J in Washington D.C., Queens Theatre in the Park, Penguin Rep in Stony Point, U.C.L.A. and Princeton, as well as international engagements in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and most recently on London's Off-West End at the New End Theatre and the Leeds International Jewish Performing Arts Festival. MotherSON won the Audience Favorite, Best Playwriting and Best Male Solo Performer at the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. His other solo play Santa Claus is Coming Out premiered at the Bailiwick in Chicago, and has played engagements at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood, 6th at Penn in San Diego, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Warehouse Theatre in Washington D.C. the play received the Best of the National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival. Jeff is the co-Artistic Director of Houses on the Moon Theater Co., which most recently presented his Tara's Crossing (an ensemble work). Tara's Crossing appeared at the Queens Theatre's Immigrant Voice's Project, had a workshop performance Off Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and its world premiere run at the Tenement Theatre in New York. the play is currently touring and has been seen at venues including the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, and American University in Washington D.C.. Jeff wrote the pilot for Jim Henson's CityKids, which received an Emmy nomination for Best Children's Special and an Ollie Award for ExcEllence in Children's Programming. He was a staff writer for the series of the same name on A.B.C. and penned a CityKids novelization for young adults published by Random House. He was a staff writer on Davis Rules (Carsey-Werner/ABC-TV) and has also written for Tribeca (Tri-Star/FOX) and Gullah Gullah Island (Nickelodeon.). Visit jeffsolo.com for more info.

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        Flat Street Sa'day Night



Flat Street Sa'day Night

Synopsis:
In Flat Street in the 1950s a group of Black Americans meet in a juke box joint after working all week in the fields

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Lenga Tooks; book by Frank Solomon

1st Produced:
Arts For A Living Theatre, New York     16 May 1985

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