S2E2: BMP & Producing for PAAL with Guest Garlia Cornelia Jones

PAAL podcast host Nicole Stodard talks with PAAL Executive Team Member and Producing Director, Garlia Cornelia Jones about how she discovered and became a part of PAAL and her current PAAL project, BMP: Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival, streaming thru June 17, 2021. Get your tickets!

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About Guest Garlia Cornelia Jones

Garlia is a writer, producer, photographer and mother from Detroit, MI.  In 2008, Garlia founded Blackboard Plays, a monthly series devoted to Black Playwrights.  She is one of the founding producers of Harlem9 and an OBIE Award winner for “48Hours in…Harlem.”  Her Essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon.com, and American Theatre.  Her work as a playwright has been supported by the cell, The Fire This Time Festival, and #24viralmonologues.   She is currently a guest artist at Wayne State University.   She worked on an MA in African American and African Diaspora studies at Indiana University before coming to New York to complete an MFA in Playwrighting at The New School for Drama. Garlia is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Producing Director of PAAL, where she  received one of their first childcare grants in 2019. Finally, Garlia is a Line Producer at The Public Theater (“Socrates”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, which was filmed for Great Performances on PBS, “Mojada”,  “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enough” and “Coal Country”).  Garlia was the Co-Creative Producer of #ToBeBlack, released on Juneteenth and Co-Producer of “Forward Together,” a virtual event in support of The Public.  Most recently, Garlia was the co-developer and curator of the #Saytheirnames projection installation.  She is the Executive Producer of the Black Motherhood and Parenting New Play Festival.

About Host Nicole Stodard

Nicole is the founding artistic director of Thinking Cap Theatre (TCT), a Fort Lauderdale based, professional non-profit theatre company with a ten-year history of programming plays that experiment with form and depict a range of identities reflective of society's wonderful diversity.  Nicole has directed and designed more than 30 main stage productions; learn more about her directing and design work at NicoleStodard.com.  Nicole holds a Master's degree in Theatre from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Doctorate in English from the University of South Florida.  She teaches in the Departments of Fine Arts and English at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL.  Her current book project investigates the origins and history of the glass curtain in professional theatre from Aphra Behn in the seventeenth century to the present day.