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Xtigone
Xtigone, World PremiereBy: Nambi E. Kelley Director: Rhodessa JonesProducer: African American Shakespeare CompanyReview: "Xtigone" Reimagines Sophocles Urban Ritual-Myth by Eric K. Arnold, February 17, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Claudette Colvin - I’m Not Getting On Until Jim Crow Gets Off
Have You Heard From Johannesburg
By: Director: Connie FieldsCast: Awele, Narrator of 1 EpisodeStudio: Clarity Films
The Legend of Dragoon, Play Station 2
Cast: Awele, Voice of Rose, and others

The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York

Listen to The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York
Director: Claire SchoenNarrator: Danny Glover Storyteller: Awele MakebaProducer: Oregon Public Broadcast
Waafrica 123
Waafrica 123Playwright: Nick Mwaluko Director: Lisa EvansProducer: Theatre First
People’s History of Next
By: Everyone Director: Jon Tracy Producer: Theatre First
MILK
By: Director: Gus Van SantCast: Awele, Supervisor Ella Hill HutchStudio: FOCUS Film
Kaiser Thrive TV Campaign, Community Bike
Cast: Awele, Bicyclist

This Land Is Your Land: Songs of Unity

Engineer: John AlevizakisPoet: Maya AngelouActors: Danny Glover, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Awele MakebaMusicians: Willie Nelson, Taj Mahal, Neveille Brothers, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Eric Bibb, Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir Producer: Music for Little People
"Awele Makeba is an actress/storyteller who will restore your faith in the power of theatre for young audiences. And even if your faith doesn't need restoring, she will inspire you and help you to remember how powerful theatre for young or old can truly be. Awele is the most stirring performer that I have seen in years, and her one-woman show, I'm Not Getting On Until Jim Crow Gets Off, is a captivating, fascinating work of art." - Karen Libman, Editor, Stage of the Art, Volume 14, Number 2
"Awele creates bridges that reconnect audiences to their national soul. She entertains and ignites in the way of a young Maya Angelou; she reveals the connection of crisis and renewal as does Ntozake Shange; she uncovers the personal within the historic like Anna Deavere Smith. But Awele is like no other in her ability to awaken her audiences in three areas - race, history, and art. Laughing and clapping or stunned into silence, we are aware of barriers and fears, preconceptions and inhibitions, magically falling away. We leave her feeling fired up, newly equipped, emboldened, and sensitized at once." - Pat Holt, former Book Review Editor, San Francisco Chronicle and Editor, Holtuncensored.com
"Rage! is a dynamic, innovative, and interactive performance that unveils critical ideals, issues, events, and people -- youth and women, central to the historical "truth" of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a watershed moment in The Movement and American history that should be experienced by all!" - Bob Moses, Founder, The Algebra Project and co-author, Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project, Beacon Press c2001
"Rage! is living proof that young people have enormous power to influence the course of human events if they could just acknowledge that they have it in them. In a world that tends to reduce adolescents to consumer markets, "Rage!" is a wake-up call for youth to assert the impact of doing as a way of making positive contributions to the progress of humankind. In a world that views the female gender as objects of desire and otherwise invisible, stripped of any meaningful power, "rage!" demonstrates that because courageous young women - girls really - have made a difference once, so too can today's blooming flowers. Awele Makeba's performance is a gift for all those needing encouragement to do something of significance with their lives. The story told is leadership by common folk, and with them, mountain ranges can be moved." - Benny Sato Ambush, Artistic Director, Venice Theatre