November 17th at 7:30 PM

Charlene Jean, Bryanna Bradley & Courtney Bryan Devon
SHIT IN THE BLOOD: a biomythography of recipes

SHIT IN THE BLOOD: A Biomythography of Recipes is a ‘digestion play’ concerned with what is lost due to the demands of assimilation that have been forced onto and seduced Black American and Black Immigrant communities. Devised by Charlene Jean, Bryanna Bradley, and Courtney Bryan Devon featuring music by Pharaoh Rapture (AKA Myles E. Johnson) and producer Sergio Rivera the piece places generational cultural voids in conversation with digestive tract diseases. 

This will be performed as part of a double bill with Martin Gohary: Camp7

About the artists

Charlene Jean

Charlene Jean is trained in the methodology of BLACK LISTENING via Avery R. Young and the Poetry Foundation's Inaugural O|Sessions. She is a 2022 MAP Grant Fund awardee, a finalist providing eligibility for the 2023/2024 Creative Capital WILD FUTURES award, a Semi-finalist at Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre's 2023 SOUL SERIES: I Am Soul - Playwrighting Residency, with multidisciplinary works presented at Weeksville Heritage Center, Harlem Film House, Mother New York, International Society of Curational Programming, and now JACKS Radical Acts Festival. Charlene Jean is Haitian on both sides. She thanks her collaborator, Bryanna, for being that girl. You is it. Thank you to the Lwa who walk with me. Thank you, Gabriel Antonio White, my husband. IG: @psalmsofchar

Bryanna Bradley

Bryanna Bradley (she/they) is a Long Island born (Matinecock) and Southeast Queens (Lekawe/Lenape) bred multidisciplinary performer with a Berkshires Massachusetts (Mohican) twang. Her work lives at the intersection of dance, theater, and performance art. Bryanna has the distinct ability to be raw, unfettered,and instinctual with clarity, precision, and focus. As a dancer, she trained with Urban Bush Women at The School at Jacob’s Pillow and shadowed Camille A. Brown through her Black Girl Spectrum Program. As an actor, she was a lead performer in 2022 MacArthur Fellow Tavares Strachan’s Spring 2022 exhibition The Awakening at the New York Marian Goodman Gallery. As a performance artist, her debut performance work buck:an exploration of black masculinity premiered in visual artist Nick Cave’s exhibition Until at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Bryanna is eternally grateful for Charlene Jean, the doll, and our ancestors. Follow on IG: @bryannabradlee

Courtney Bryan Devon

Courtney Bryan Devon (they/them) is a Black, Queer, nonbinary Theatremaker, Somatic Healer, and Arts Educator. Through their work, Courtney creates revealing, reviving and revolutionary experiences rooted in facilitation, fellowship, and freedom. Cultivating an eclectic arts education that is continually reinvested into marginalized communities as a teaching artist, Courtney proudly serves as the Rosetta LeNoire Academy director at Amas Musical Theatre and Education Committee presenter for the 2023 Shakespeare Theatre Association international conference. Courtney is most enlivened in enriching and connecting communities through creativity, believing in the universal power of the arts and storytelling to facilitate environments of learning, healing, transformative justice, and radical joy. @Coourtinator