Monologues for Actors of Color

Roberta Uno was the founding Artistic Director of the New WORLD Theater in Amherst, Massachusetts, a visionary institution dedicated to works by artists of color, having worked with legendary figures including James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Pearl Primus, and Gordon Heath. She was also a Professor of Directing and Dramaturgy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Theater. In 2002, Uno joined the Ford Foundation and is Senior Program Officer for Arts and Culture, in the Freedom of Expression unit of the Education, Creativity, and Free Expression program.

Selected monologues from:

after all of the terrible things I do

Aftermath

Another Part of the House

Becoming Cuba

Blues for Mr Charlie

Butterfly

Café Vida

Café Vida

Calling Aphrodite

China Doll

Come Down Burning

Contigo

The Convert

Dark Cowgirls and Prairie Queens

Do Lord Remember Me

Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass

Fati’s Last Dance

Fetch Clay Make Man

Firebird Tattoo

Fish Head Soup

Flyin' West

The Frybread Queen

The Gospel of Lovingkindness

Guapa

Half Lives

The Happiest Song Plays Last

HappyFlowerNail

HappyFlowerNail

Heroes and Saints

How Else Am I Supposed to Know I'm Still Alive

In the Continuum

In the Red and Brown Water

Last Dance

Lidless

A Life in Knots

A Local Perspective

Long Time Since Yesterday

Marisol

Mariela in the Desert

Miss Lead

The Mountaintop

N(E)IG(H)G(BO)ERS

A Nice Indian Boy

Night over Erzinga

R.A.W

The Rez Sisters

Roosters

Ruined

Sabra Falling

The Sarimanok Travels

Smart People

Some People

Someday

Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven

Standoff at Hwy#37

The Strength of Indian Women

Sunset Baby

The Talk

Trajectory of a Heart, Fractured

Twilight

Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage

Unmerciful Good Fortune

Wine in the Wilderness

Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light

The Women of Tu-Na House

The World of Extreme Happiness