EVERYDAY FROM MONDAY 6/21/2021 to FRIDAY 6/25/2021
12:00PM EST
Join us for our DAILY SCRIPT READ presenting our very own local screenwriters work read by local actors followed by a Q&A to talk about their work. These reads will take place online via Zoom.
Daily Reads organized by Actor/Singer and SAG-AFTRA NE Local President, Andrea Lyman.
Casting coordinated by Nada Shaaban and Naheem Garcia.
See under each date for the day’s Daily Read link.
Monday, june 21, 2021
THATO R. MWOSA
SHE/HER/HERS.
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Thato’s first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival and it won the Best Feature Film award at the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival. In 2021, Thato was selected for Company One’s Playlab Circuit Volt Playwriting Lab. Her short plays have been produced nationally most recently by Scribe Stages in Los Angeles. Thato was a finalist for the 2019 Mass Cultural Art Fellowship in the Dramatic Writing category. She has a dual degree in TV/Film Production and Marketing/Advertising Communications from Emerson College and an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen from Lesley University. She currently serves on the boards of Women in Film New England, Roxbury Community College Broadcasting Program, and Boston Neighborhood Network in Boston. Thato is a film instructor at Brookline High School School and Emerson College (fall of 2021).
ABOUT THE SCRIPT
CLARITY
A terminal illness forces mother and daughter to deal with the source of their strained relationship.
ACTORS READING
KEITH MASCOLL
CLOTEAL HORNE
ASHLEY ALDARONDO
MEAGAN DILWORTH
JANINE ROBINSON
ASHTON MUÑIZ
tuesday, june 22, 2021
After the reading: An engaging conversation about Black stories and the various unique perspectives brought by those who tell them.
ELINOR TEELE
SHE/HER/HERS.
Elinor Teele is a HarperCollins author and screenwriter. Her work includes Kirkus-starred books, unique plays, and character-driven films. ½ Brit and ½ Yankee, Elinor holds a Ph.D. in Old English Literature from the University of Cambridge. Her first book, “The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin,” received a Kirkus star. Her second, “The Treasure of Mad Doc Magee,” was a Junior Library Guild selection. Elinor also wrote and directed “Studs Terkel’s American Century,” an interactive stage production that weaves excerpts from Terkel’s real-life interviews into an evening of music and storytelling. For her unconventional survival saga based on Howard Blackburn, Elinor was chosen as a Final Draft Fellowship semifinalist and Sidewalk Film Festival Narrative Lab participant. She’s thrilled to be part of the Roxbury International Film Festival and immensely grateful to the organizers for their work & support.
ABOUT THE SCRIPT
DILL
A Black woman living in the time of the American Revolution grapples with love, independence, and her role as a witness in a critical trial.
Inspired by true events.
ACTORS READING
LAWRENCE EVANS
CLOTEAL HORNE
NAHEEM GARCIA
MEAGAN DILWORTH
JANINE ROBINSON
JULIA CARPENTER
KEITH MASCOLL
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2021
BRIANNA J. COX
SHE/HER/HERS.
Brianna Jewel Cox is a Caribbean-American artist and educator, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She works as a Writer, Director, Actress, and Video Editor, crafting narratives in the form of films, theatrical performances, and poetry. Themes central to her work include coming-of-age, history and heritage, mental health, gender roles, the role of art in an individual’s life, interpersonal relationships, and existential questions linked to Blackness and race. Her short film work has been featured in festivals across the globe. Brianna earned her dual Bachelor's Degree in Africana Studies and Theatre Arts/Performance Studies from Brown University and is now an MFA Candidate in the Film and Media Art program at Emerson College. She is currently developing the Afrofuturistic world of Onyx and the Chronicle of the Seers (@OnyxTheSeries on Instagram and Twitter), for which she is filming a proof-of-concept episode called 18 Years: A Letter to Zora as her MFA Thesis Project.
ABOUT THE SCRIPT
18 YEARS: A LETTER TO ZORA
A multigenerational line of Black women seek escape from the multitude of pandemics facing them here on Planet Earth, while also using their supernatural abilities and the power of storytelling to preserve the memories of their ancestry. Who will make it through the plague and persecution to the glimmering hope waiting on the other side of an intergalactic journey?
ACTORS READING
NAHEEM GARCIA
CLOTEAL HORNE
MEAGAN DILWORTH
RICARDY FABRE
KAREN PEREZ
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021
JOHN OLUWOLE ADEKOJE
HE/HIM/HIS.
John's awards include being a national award winner of The Kennedy Center's ACTF Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for the play Street Hawker; as well as a recipient of The Roxbury International Film Festival's Emerging local Filmmaker award for the documentary "Street Soldiers", which also showed at the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France, and The World Film Festival-Montreal, as well as the BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta. John has received the Brother Thomas Fellowship Award and he is a playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theater Company. Most recently, he was awarded the Emerging Filmmaker Award for Knockaround Kids, his narrative feature, at the Roxbury International Film Festival which all showed at the Urbanworld Film festival in NY. Knockaround kids can be found on Tubi, Amazon prime, Google Play, Apple and other film platforms. John Adekoje is the co director and director of photography for the digital version of Hype Man (Company One/American Repertory Theatre) as well as the writer, director and projection/art designer for the Triggered Life Project (Portland Playhouse) John Oluwole ADEkoje, teaches film production and theatre at Boston Arts Academy.
ABOUT THE SCRIPT
THE AMERICAN OF WISCONSIN
The play centers around Gebnga, a Nigerian stand up comedian trying to
find his identity in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. The American tackles themes
of love, gentrification, identity, and race.
ACTORS READING
LAWRENCE EVANS
RAHMAN OLADIGBOLU
RICARDY FABRE
JANINE ROBINSON
ASHTON MUÑIZ
friday, june 25, 2021
*Suprise READING*
ABOUT THE SCRIPT
It’s a surprise, but we promise it’ll be worth waiting for!
ACTORS READING
LAWRENCE EVANS
KEITH MASCOLL
ASHTON MUÑIZ
RAHMAN OLADIGBOLU
JULIA CARPENTER
NAHEEM GARCIA
ASHLEY ALDARONDO
ABOUT the stars
ANDREA LYMAN
SHE/HER/HERS.
Andrea Lyman is thrilled to be a member of the RoxFilm family for decades as an audience member, filmmaker, singer, sponsor, board member and now happily as a host and actor in the premiere Daily Reads series. RoxFilm has always been my favorite film festival. Andrea is a graduate of Boston Conservatory of Music and a member of #ActorsEquity and #SAG- AFTRA. Andrea has performed locally, nationally and internationally on stage and screen, such as Radio City Music Hall’s CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, Wellesley Repertory Theatre’s A PIECE OF MY HEART and HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, ION-TV’s A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS. She has a solo cabaret-style musical show BROADWAY LADY.
ASHLEY L. ALDARONDO-MARTINEZ
SHE/HER/HERS.
Born in Puerto Rico, Ashley was raised in south coast Mass. She’s a combat veteran of the Armed Forces and has lived overseas in both Hawaii and England. She received her college education in Rhode Island and the United Kingdom. She’s performed in university productions such as “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” and participated in the debut production of Trinity Repertory Company’s “Every 28 Hours”. Ashley’s also worked in film and television productions such as Hubie Halloween and Defending Jacob.
Ashley is heavily involved in mental health activism, stressing the need and importance of mental health awareness particularly in communities of color. She’s a mother of one and enjoys traveling in her spare time.
ASHTON MUÑIZ
ASHTON/THEY/HE.
Ashton Muñiz is a queer actor, artist, and activist based in New York City. Select recent credits include The Inheritance(Broadway), Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music(The Kimmel Center/St. Ann’s Warehouse/Pomegranate Arts), Esai’s Table Cherry Lane), False Stars(The Pack Theatre), And She Would Stand Like This(Movement Theatre Company), and Take Care(The Flea). Recently, Ashton has collaborated with various artists and featured in their works at The Guggenheim(Machine Dazzle), Art Institute Chicago/Swiss Institute/New Museum(Cally Spooner), Biennial Performa/Lehmann Maupin(Nicholas Hlobo), Friedman Gallery(Alexander Kargaltsev), and Pace Gallery(Lilleth Glimcher). Additionally, Ashton has danced for various musicians including Marc Jacobs FW 2020(Karole Armitage), A$AP Rocky(Lab Rat-Sotheby’s), Rihanna(MTV VMAs 2016), Julia Anrather, and Miles Francis. Muñiz is a co-founder of Legacy: A Back Queer Production Collecitve and received training at Ithaca College, Moscow Arts Theatre School, and Shakespeare & Company.
Legacy: A Black Queer Production Collective (Instagram, GoFundMe)
CLOTEAL HORNE
SHE/HER/HERS.
CLOTEAL L. HORNE is a dynamic actress, educator, and theatre-maker. Her credits include, Off-Broadway: The Steadfast (Slant Theatre Project); Dirty Blood (Billie Holiday Theatre). Regional: Twelfth Night; Merry Wives of Windsors; Two Gents.; Merchant of Venice; Comedy of Errors; Midsummer Night’s Dream; Christmas At Pemberley (Shakespeare & Co.). She A Gem, (NYTW). Black Odyssey (Trinity Rep.) Marie Antoinette, Comedia De Equivocaciones; Venus (Brown/Trinity), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, (LyricStage) To Kill a Mockingbird, (Weston Playhouse); Funny Thing Happened…, (BarnStormers); The Clothesline Muse, (Aion Productions); How We Got On, (CompanyOne); Gift Horse, R&J, (New Rep.); Othello, (ASP); BlueShift, (Huntington). FILM: The Light (B.K.Lui.Horne), The Promotion (C1 Media) Driving While Black Magic. As an educator, Cloteal has taught at: Yale School of Drama, Brown University, NYU- Playwrights Horizons, and La Jolla Playhouse Student Conservatory. B.F.A in Acting from Boston University and a M.F.A in Acting from Brown University/Trinity. Gratefully standing on the shoulders of those that have come before her, Cloteal is a product of her grandmother’s prayers + her ancestors’ wildest dream.
JANINE ROBINSON
SHE/HER/HERS.
Janine Robinson is an actor/writer and producer. As a writer of short stories, she produced her first film CHEERS, A Barstool Story, under her logo "Anai Sa Film", and is currently working on her first television series "The Access Road".
She is known for her role as the Administrative Nurse in the film Patriots Day, and Prosecutor in the film Assassin Behind The Glass, which she also produced.
Janine is also a poet and self-published her first book of poetry "Walk With Me", (Poetic expressions of Life's journey) in 2012.
JULIA CARPENTER
SHE/HER/HERS.
Born in Rochester, NY but now a Bostonian, Julia, is known for her enthusiastic, credible, caring and warm voice. An award winning Toastmaster, many have heard her presenting on our local GBH (Public Broadcasting Service) televised auctions.
You may also have heard her as the host Chef Julia, “In the Kitchen” and “SisterTalk”, booster shows for Brown University Institute for Community Health Promotion, or as the voice of instruction for the League of Women Voters Citizen Education Fund voter demonstrations of Datavote, Optech, Accuvote, AVM 40, and Paper Voting Machines for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KAREN P
SHE/HER/HERS.
Karen is a Boston-based Latina actress, who has been in the acting business for about 2 years now. She is currently an actress in one of the films being shown this year: Dudley Street. Karen is grateful for being part of the RoxFilm Festival.
KEITH MASCOLL
HE/HIM/HIS.
An Actor, Producer, Mental Health advocate, Sneaker-head, and Founder of the Triggered Project. Keith is a co-host of the Living a Triggered Life Podcast with his wife Roxann, and a Luminary for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.Keith strives to use his art for social change in the black and brown community. As a survivor of sexual abuse Keith hopes to help end the stigma that surrounds mental health, and black and brown men talking about being abused. He is committed to using his unique and innovative style of storytelling to provoke love, laughter, and empathy in every story told. Keith has a New York Critics Choice Award for his work on the stage. Look for Keith in the lead role in the movie Confused by Love on Amazon Prime, and as Applesauce in The Polka King on Netflix.
The Triggered Project: www.triggered1.com, @triggered_one_
The Triggered Podcast: @livingatriggeredlifepodcast
LAWRENCE EVANS
HE/HIM/HIS.
Lawrence Evans – Regional theatre: Florida Studio Theatre, Triad Stage, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Caldwell Theatre Company, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, freeFall Theatre, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Short North Stage. National tours: And Still I Rise, Camp Logan, The Sweet Spot. Television: “New Amsterdam,” “All My Children,” “Another World,” “Ryan’s Hope,” “As the World Turns,” “One Life to Live,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order.” Film: “State Property II,” “The Devil Wears Prada.” He studied theatre at Jackson State University and the University of Michigan.
MEAGAN DILWORTH
SHE/HER/HERS.
Meagan Dilworth (She/Her) a native of Memphis, TN and reared in many parts of Georgia, is a Theatre Practitioner & Educator. She has performed in multiple cities that include- Chicago: Tokens of Promise (Goodman Theatre), A Day of Absence (Congo Square), The Ridiculous Darkness (Sideshow Theatre), 31st Playwrights Festival (Pegasus Theatre). Atlanta: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Actors Express). Boston: Paradise Blue (Gloucester Stage) Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Lyric Stage). She has worked as an educator with Court Theatre, Kenny Leon’s True Colors, Emerson College, and Trinity Repertory Theatre. She holds a B.A. in Theatre & Performance Studies from Kennesaw State University and M.A. in Theatre Education from Emerson College. She is excited to be a part of the Roxbury International Film Festival's Daily Reads for the second time. Thank-you to my community of Day 1’s for your continued love and support.
NAHEEM GARCIA
HE/HIM/HIS.
Naheem Garcia, has been an actor and theatre educator for more than twenty years. He grew up in Boston, arriving here from Cuba in 1968. He is proudly bilingual (English and Spanish) and known for his deep, mellifluous voice. Naheem has worked extensively in the Northeast with many of the reginal theatre companies. He is currently a teaching artist with The Huntington Theatre Company. In recognition of his excellence as a theatre educator and actor. A member of AFTRA and SAG, Naheem has appeared in several prominent Hollywood-and independently produced feature films such as The Sleepover; Emma; Free Guy; Equalizer2; Daddy’s Home2; Joy; Black Mass; The Heat; Lift; Maiden Heist; Purge3 Election Year
Naheem’s work has been lauded by his peers and he received the El Planeta Powermeter 100 (2014) and Sojourner Truth Award (2007). He completed the Aesthetic Education Immersion program with the Lincoln Center Summer Forum at Julliard in 2017.
RAHMAN OLADIGBOLU
HE/HIM/HIS.
Rahman Oladigbolu was coming out of a seven-year illness when he moved to Massachusetts to start a new life. He started as a production assistant on films, television, and experimental short films. As a liberal arts/psychology student and a peer tutor/teacher’s assistant, Rahman sought further film training under the private tutelage of film professor Howard Phillips at the Center for Digital Imaging and Animation school, CDIA, an affiliate of Boston University. He published a memoir of his long-term illness, On Holy Pilgrimage: A Long Journey For Freedom, which details his transformative experience of coming to America against all odds to learn filmmaking.
While furthering his education at Harvard University, and working as a mental health assistant with teenagers and young adults with autism, Rahman wrote and produced his first feature film Soul Sisters. The film tells the story of friendship between a Nigerian young woman faced with unexpected challenges as an undocumented immigrant in the United States and an African American young woman searching for her identity as a black woman in America.
Soul Sisters went ahead to win the “Best Emerging Filmmaker Award” at the Roxbury International Film Festival, “Best Film by an African Abroad” at the African Movie Academy Award (AMAA), and “The Artist Award” at the American Islamic Congress, a multicultural and inter-faith organization. It has been screened at film festivals and cultural institutes around the world, including the Cannes’ Pan-African Film festival.
The stories of Rahman’s college friends became his second feature film, Theory of Conflict.
Facebook: Rahman A. Oladigbolu
RICARDY FABRE
HE/HIM/HIS.
Ricardy Fabre is a Native New Yorker and a recent graduate from Brown University/ Trinity Rep MFA Acting program. Ricardy is grateful to be apart of the Rox Film Fest.