M(Y)O͝OˈLÄDŌ
BY ALEXIS INGRAM
PERFORMANCES
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15 & 22 AT 10PM
m(y)o͝oˈlädō noun- date offensive
1. a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent
m(y)o͝oˈlädō explores what it is like to belong to two worlds. What is like to be simultaneously welcomed and shunned by the two communities you're a part of? Part diary, part documentary m(y)o͝oˈlädō explores sexism, classism, colorism, racism, and many other things that divide us as people.
Written and performed by Alexis Ingram, m(y)o͝oˈlädō was first conceived at The La MaMa ETC Playwright Symposium in Umbria, Italy of 2012. Under the tutelage of Leah Fondakowski (Tectonic Theater Project) it was written just as an autobiography play. It was put to rest until July of 2018 when Ingram work-shopped it at on residency at The Barn Arts Collective- Hamilton Project in Maine. It was performed for the first time and the story was combined with about 20 interviews of other mixed black women living in the US. Ingram brought it back home for The Wilbury Theatre Group's FRINGEPVD along with director MJ Daly. It had two sold out shows for FRINGEPVD and for this special run at Wilbury more interviews and stories have been added in.
PERFORMANCES*
Saturday, December 15 10:00pm
Friday, December 22 10:00pm
*following select performances of Futurity.
Presented through The Wilbury Group's New Work Development program Studio W,
M(Y)O͝OˈLÄDŌ originally premiered as part of the 2018 FRINGEPVD Providence Fringe Festival.
Video by edited and directed by Blake Horn www.blakehorn.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST: ALEXIS INGRAM
Writer and performer Alexis Ingram is a Providence native and current teaching artist at Trinity Rep. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence in 2013 she has worked in tv/film/theatre in NYC, Boston, and RI. She recently completed her first Off-Broadway tour and is happy to be back home making art. More at alexisingram.com
Director MJ Daly is a native New Englander who began performing at the age of eight. After graduating as a theater major from Emerson College she spent a decade as a director and actor in Boston. MJ relocated Providence and reentered the arts community in 2010 as Titania in Mixed Magic Theatre’s summer production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Since then, MJ has worked with some of the finest performing artists in Rhode Island. Mixed Magic also gave MJ the opportunity to return to directing with productions of Ricardo Pitts Wiley’s Well of Woman and his adaptation of Frankenstein, or Misery’s Fiend. The 2013 season was a particular highlight when MJ appeared in Fate Comes Knocking and Fences at Mixed Magic, Tartuffe with the Players at Barker Playhouse and The Exonerated at 2nd Story Theatre. The following year MJ made her first appearance with Epic Theatre Company, where favorite roles include Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and Jaclyn Spaulding in Rasheeda Speaking. Making her debut with Counter Productions as part of the 2015 Readings in Autumn series, she was thrilled to return to Counter in 2018 for the world premiere of David J Valentin’s Isabella.
Director MJ Daly is a native New Englander who began performing at the age of eight. After graduating as a theater major from Emerson College she spent a decade as a director and actor in Boston. MJ relocated Providence and reentered the arts community in 2010 as Titania in Mixed Magic Theatre’s summer production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Since then, MJ has worked with some of the finest performing artists in Rhode Island. Mixed Magic also gave MJ the opportunity to return to directing with productions of Ricardo Pitts Wiley’s Well of Woman and his adaptation of Frankenstein, or Misery’s Fiend. The 2013 season was a particular highlight when MJ appeared in Fate Comes Knocking and Fences at Mixed Magic, Tartuffe with the Players at Barker Playhouse and The Exonerated at 2nd Story Theatre. The following year MJ made her first appearance with Epic Theatre Company, where favorite roles include Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and Jaclyn Spaulding in Rasheeda Speaking. Making her debut with Counter Productions as part of the 2015 Readings in Autumn series, she was thrilled to return to Counter in 2018 for the world premiere of David J Valentin’s Isabella.
