Here is my schedule when I was a full-time theatre teacher, while also pursuing my craft: 6:00am- Wake up 6:15am- Shower 6:30am- Dress 7:00am- Make breakfast 7:30am- Morning commute to work 8:00am- Clock into work 8:15am- Staff meeting 9:00am- First class 1:00pm- Lunch break 1:30pm- Back to class 5:00pm- End of workday, commute to rehearsal […]
About Billie Krishawn
Billie Krishawn speaks with actor Moses Princien for The SoSu Series
“When the least of us are safe and have a space, all of us do.” True change begins when we decide that a shift is necessary. Inciting change is risky, brave, beautiful and most importantly… necessary. During this interview with The SoSu Series Moses Princien (they/them) speaks out about changes that are long overdue. As […]
Billie Krishawn speaks with actor Erika Rose for The SoSu Series
“I can put all of that energy into speaking up, but first I have to know what I feel. First I have to find a center.” –Erika Rose Every day of our lives we are exchanging energy. Some days we have the capacity to be intentional about the energy we send out. Other days, we […]
Billie Krishawn speaks with artist/activist Temídayo Amay for The SoSu Series
“As you pour into me, a Black Non-Binary Gender Queer person, you pour into yourself.” – Temídayo Amay, talking with Billie Krishawn for The SoSu Series “My non-binary identity is mine and mine alone,” says Temídayo but this gender identity isn’t the only journey that they are claiming. All too often we live an existence […]
Billie Krishawn talks with Black non-binary artist Tyasia “Ty” Velines for The SoSu Series
Blooming. Truth. Passion. Power. The art being created by BIPOC artists and non-binary artists embody these words. The SoSu Series focuses light on these artists in the moments of the Black Lives Movement and the movement for racial equity we’re seeing here in DC Theatre. “Our stories deserve to be heard and listened to…and taken […]
Fact: BIPOC Women* and Non-Binary artists are underrepresented on our stages. Billie Krishawn starts The SoSu Series with the numbers.
“Every audience deserves to sit in the theatre and see their community reflected back to them.” The SoSu trailer revealed some reasons why that isn’t the case today. Billie Krishawn starts her new interview project, The SoSu Series, with a look at the facts. As a Black Woman, it is easy for me to […]
Theatre artists cross the line to end the silence and speak out for The SoSu Series
“I froze, not knowing what to do, instantly realizing … that he had all the power to hire me, and if I said no, I risked having any kind of role at one of the largest theatres in the country. And maybe farther than that; how could he damage my reputation?” – Confession Statement* On […]
A Movement Unleashed: Black Lives Matter Protest, Photo Essay from DC
We are like clay. Life, a chisel. Every experience we have brings us one step closer to seeing our ultimate form. Every hardship, every heartbreak, every trauma, every laugh forever shaping us into the people we see today. This month in America, the people took back our tools. Forever through with a culture that deemed […]
DC Theatre community gathers for Black Lives Matter vigil, photos and video
70 days. 10 weeks. 2 months. 1,680 hours. 100,800 minutes. 6,048,000 seconds. No. This is not the lyric sheet to some RENT musical remix. This is the amount of time that stood between Theatre as we knew it and one very sweet moment of reuniting on June 8, 2020. On April 1, 2020 at 12:01am, […]
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