Celebrating 15 years of "48Hours in Harlem ®"

***Tickets: $30 online and $35 at the door ***
*** WE HAVE TWO SHOWS: 7pm & 9:30pm***
After a one-year hiatus, the Harlem9 producers return to their flagship festival in Harlem, marking 15 years of championing Black voices. The OBIE Award-Winning producers of “48Hours in…Harlem®”, “48Hours in…™El Bronx”, “48Hours in…™Detroit”, “48Hours in…™Dallas,” “48Hours in…™Holy Ground”, and most recently, “48Hours in…™Baton Rouge” will celebrate this milestone with a tribute to Woodie King Jr. who passed in late January. “48Hours in…Harlem®” will take place on Sunday, August 30, at 7pm and 9 pm
The “48Hours in...®️” festivals bring together six playwrights, six directors, and 18 actors.
This year’s Harlem playwrights will write a new 10-minute play inspired by one of these six plays, both published and unpublished, from New Federal Theatre's canon:
"In the New England Winter" by Ed Bullins
"Hospice" by Pearl Cleage
"Black Girl" by J.E. Franklin
"Long Time Since Yesterday" by P.J. Gibson
"When the Chickens Came Home to Roost" by Laurence Holder
"James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire by Howard B. Simon".
Two live performances will take place on Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 7pm and 9pm at the Jacques d'Amboise Center for Learning & the Arts at National Dance Institute, located at 217 W. 147th Street in Harlem.
Tickets are $30 in advance online and $35 at the door. Purchase at www.harlem9.org.

THE 6 PLAYWRIGHTS:
Kristen Adele Calhoun
Zachariah Ezer
Kermit Frazier
Mya Ison
Naomi Lorrain
Andres Santiago Piña
THE 6 DIRECTORS:
Clinton Turner Davis
Tiffany Nichole Greene
Kimille Howard
Ken-Matt Martin
Oz Scott
Raecine Singletary
THE 18 ACTORS:
Antonyio Artis
Tyrese Shawn Avery
Thomas Booker
Mario Brown
Lamar K Cheston
Jasmine T. R Gatewood
Paige Gilbert
Marla Lou
Aja Mahogany
Sharina Martin
Dege Matters
Jada Alston Owens
Gregarious (Greg) Reid
Celeste Sena
Calvin Thompson
Nathan Onaje Tolliver
Shawn Williams
About Harlem9:
Harlem9 is a collaborative producing organization comprised of a group of Black theater professionals from various backgrounds, whose mission is to produce together, exploring the past, present and future of black culture, celebrating its rich and diverse history of storytelling. Bryan E. Glover, Garlia Cornelia Jones, Eric Lockley, Jonathan McCrory, and Liberation Theatre Company (Sandra A. Daley-Sharif and Spencer Scott Barros) are the producers that comprise Harlem9.

For more information, please visit www.harlem9.org