Josslyn Luckett
My blogs
| Introduction | These are my first wordsteps toward one day creating an interfaith music center which I hope to call "The Duke Ellington Center for the Study of Sacred Jazz." You can read more about that in the very first Dec 2007 post of this blog. The bio in the "interests" section tells a bit about my creative/writing life leading up to this jazz/hallelujah journey. Thank you so much for visiting/reading, hope to hear your thoughts. Huge joy and thanks to all who supported the 6 wonderful Jazz on the Sacred Side shows at our beloved Jazz Bakery. East coasters stay tuned for Sacred Side shows in Boston and NYC as I'm heading to Harvard Divinity School to study comparative religion with an emphasis on sacred music...soon come... |
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| Interests | Ms. Luckett was an Executive Story Editor/Staff writer for four seasons of the WB comedy, "The Steve Harvey Show." Her screenplay, "Love Song" was directed by Julie Dash and aired on MTV. In 2002 Filmmaker Magazine included her in their annual "25 New Faces of Independent Film" issue. Her plays, "Rupture, Runnin' Through Risk, Runnin' to Bliss" and "Chronicles of a Comic Mulatta: an oreo/choreopoem" have been performed at the Public Theater, the Walnut Street Theater, The National Black Theater Festival in North Carolina. Selections from her new solo show “Loving/Imitation” were performed at REDCAT and workshopped recently in a 9 month playwriting workshop at the Center Theater Group/Mark Taper. Company of Angels in LA commissioned and produced her latest play: "Like Her Shanti Doesn't Stink: Black Women Eye to Iyengar" in Feb 2009. Her essays/poetry have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Konch Magazine, "Voices from Leimert Park Anthology" (Tsehai Press) and "What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories about Sex and Love, " (Houghton Mifflin). She has a BA from UCBerkeley in Ethnic Studies and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. |