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There are many reasons why playwright Geraldine Inoa’s words have been called " passionate ," " bracing ," and " sharp ." Her writing evolved from a history of trauma, and theater has allowed her to speak up in all of the ways she couldn't when she was young. Another is that Inoa, the recipient of the inaugural Rhimes Unsung Voices ...
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Geraldine Inoa is an American television and theater writer who serves as a writer of AMC's The Walking Dead.
Geraldine is a playwright and activist based in Brooklyn. She is a member of the Public Theater’s 2016-17 Emerging Writers Group. Her play Scraps was developed through the Labyrinth Theater Company’s Up Next Series and was a semifinalist for the O’Neil National Playwrights Conference.
Her work has been developed at the Future is Female Festival, the All Out Arts Reading Series, and the Gallatin Arts Festival. She received a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Season 9
•"The Obliged" •"The Calm Before" (with Channing Powell)
Season 10
•"Silence the Whisperers"
Aug 24, 2018 · Geraldine Inoa explores the traumatic aftermath of a police killing in Scraps. Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement came to prominence after a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, there has been a rash of searing plays about how law enforcement victimizes African American men (Pass Over at Lincoln Center Theater, Kill Move Paradise at the National Black Theatre, Harlem Stage ...
Sep 4, 2018 · September 4 th, 2018. Geraldine Inoa and Gracie Gardner have a lot in common. Both are young writers who are relatively self-trained (neither chose to pursue an MFA) and who go back and forth between the worlds of theatre and television. Both women are also the recipients of very prestigious awards, The Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission and ...
Sep 14, 2018 · In Geraldine Inoa’s Scraps, we are taken beyond the eulogy, past the hashtags and rest in power t-shirts, with the only photo Forest’s mother could find of him smiling, and into the aftermath. Inoa’s first professional play production is evidence of things unseen. It makes visible the ways that grief manifests and mutates among one family ...
Six, to be exact, and his newest, “Scraps,” a play by Geraldine Inoa, launched July 6 at Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood. Directed by Steve Walker-Webb and set in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood three months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, “Scraps” bills itself as “a frequently ...
Jun 11, 2020 · The Matrix Theatre Company’s award-winning production of “Scraps” by Geraldine Inoa was made available for viewing on the company’s YouTube page. A mash-up of poetry, realism and expressionism, “Scraps” chronicled how the family and friends of a black teenager shot by a white police officer struggle to cope in the aftermath.
