The Chester Higgensworth Detective Series

A Radio Play By Peppur Chambers

Directed by Bernadette Speakes, Produced by L. Stephanie Tait, Editing & Sound Design by Jamil Kareem Jones

Podcast Commissioned by Lower Depth Theatre

This podcast is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Personal stories, global cultures.

β€” We triumph the stories that skirt mainstream consciousness, that challenge our identities and individual narratives, and that tell a collective story of humanity as interwoven, activated, and empowered.

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Mainstage Production: Pure Confidence (2017)

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Gregg T. Daniel, Marya Mazor

 
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Yumarie Morales

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Cymya Johnson

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Jason Delane Lee, Sydney A. Mason

MAIN STAGE PRODUCTION: SAFE HARBOR by Tira Palmquist (2019)

 
 
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β€œHymn” by Lolita Chakrabarti

A Staged-Reading Produced by Lower Depth, in Partnership with A Noise Within

 
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2019 Dealing 4 Lower Depth Poker Tournament

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β€” Something transformative happens when people sit in our seats. They connect with a specific experience of the African diaspora. They explore the stories, themes, and issues that affect both our immediate neighborhoods and the world at large. And they feel it in their bones – which can be challenging, revelatory, and healing. The power of theatre makes this happen. 

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β€œAbolitionist Biscuits” by T.Tara Turk-Haynes

A Lower Depth Commissioned Short Play

 
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Maya Angelou

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