Want to read a play that examines Shakespeare and race from a Black actor’s perspective? Us too.
AMERICAN MOOR by Keith Hamilton Cobb
Wednesday December 17th at 8pm on Zoom
(Note that we are meeting on a Wednesday this month instead of our usual Thursday!)
Our guest curator Cassandra Marcus Davey has put together an incredible list of resources to help you find copies of American Moor in various formats. Find it here: Fall Ruff Reads resources
DM us or contact christine@shakespeareintheruff.com for the Zoom link. (Don’t have time to read but still interested in the conversation? Join us anyway!)
About American Moor:
“Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of Shakespeare’s character Othello, offering up a host of insights that are by turns introspective and indicting, difficult and deeply moving. American Moor is a play about race in America, but it is also a play about who gets to make art, who gets to play Shakespeare, about whose lives and perspectives matter, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love.”
About Keith Hamilton Cobb:
Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor drawn mostly to the stage in his working life, but is also recognized for several unique character portrayals he has created for television.
He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in acting. His regional theatre credits include such venues as The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington DC, and the Denver Theatre Center, performing such classical roles as Laertes in “Hamlet,” Tybalt in “Romeo and Juliet,” Tullus Aufidius in “Coriolanus,” Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as well as roles in such contemporary dramas as David Mamet’s “Race,” August Wilson’s “Jitney,” and Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined.”