Mixed Chicks Chat

Episode 232 Mixed Chicks Chat with Adrienne Dawes

Adrienne Dawes is a playwright from Austin, Texas. Her plays have been produced by the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Department; Revolving Stages; REJOTI Productions; American Repertory Theatre of London; Live Girls Theatre!; Little Fish Theatre Company; Stormy Weather Players; New England Academy of Theater; New Jersey Repertory Company; Hyde Park Theater; LSU’s Outworks Festival; Mir Productions and St Idiot Collective. Her plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, Heuer Publishing and Vintage Books.

Ms. Dawes’ first full-length play, Jesus Loves Good Christians, premiered in Downstage’s spring 2003 season at Sarah Lawrence College and was named a semifinalist for the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award 2003. Upon her graduation, Ms. Dawes was awarded the 2004 Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting. Austin Scriptworks awarded a 2006 Fringe Festival Commission Award to support Ms. Dawes’ play like meat love salt as well as the development and production of You Are Pretty. The site-specific premiere of You Are Pretty, featured in American Theatre Magazine’s October 2007 issue, was nominated for three Austin Critics Table Awards and one B. Iden Payne Award in 2008.

Ms. Dawes currently resides in Chicago, IL where she completed the Core Writing Program  at Second City. Adrienne collaborated with American Theater Company for two educational outreach projects, wrote sketches for The Playground Theater’s first Sketch Lab as well as Fighting Neverland, a sketch revue produced for Second City’s Donny’s Skybox Theater. Her first musical Never Have I Ever premiered in Second City’s de Maat Studio Theatre in October 2010.  Adrienne is currently directing/producing a new improvised paranormal comedy web series titled web series “Completely Normal Activity” (developed with Private Portions, a video sketch collective) which premiered in June 2011. Her second short film, “Wiccan Tease” will receive its world premiere in DC Shorts Film Festival this Fall.

Her website is here:  http://adriennebcdawes.wordpress.com

Episode 231 - Mixed Chicks Chat with Onica Cupido

Onica was born in Guyana, South America, but has lived in the USA for the past 30 something years. A few years ago she started a community called Euphoria Luv. for interracial (Asian & Black ) couples and families. She wanted to provide a place that offered support and resources.

After having her son, who's Korean and Black, aka "Blasian,
" she started the Blasian Baby Notes mommy blog where she shares about life as a mom as well as her thoughts on social & community issues affecting Black women with Biracial kids.

Besides the Blasian community, she also advocates on issues affecting Black women and was invited to Walt Disney World to see, learn about and give feedback on The Princess and The Frog, their first movie featuring an African American princess in a somewhat interracial relationship. I'm currently working on more project which includes guest blogging on various sites that promote a positive image of black women, biracial children and the mixed race community.