In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with playwright and screenwriter, Raven Monroe! We get into about Black girls playing all kinds of roles, writing across genres and mediums and how growing up in the South impacts her work.

Raven Monroe is an actor and playwright from Charlotte, NC. She is a proud graduate of UNC Charlotte (BA ‘16) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA ‘19) where she honed her skills in the dramatic arts, studying under theatre director Oskar Eustis and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. As a writer, her intention is to create works that send Black women and girls on adventures, providing representation and showing Black girls that they can be the star of any story. Her works include Mary Davis: Adventures in the Godlands, which was a quarterfinalist at the 2019 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and Sissy & Gen, which is a quarterfinalist in the 2020 Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition. She currently serves as the Vice President on the board of the North Carolina chapter of Women in Film & Television, where she created the bi-weekly live panel “Filmmaker Fridays”, which airs on the NC WiFT Facebook page.

You can find Raven's work on New Play Exchange https://newplayexchange.org/users/36026/raven-monroe

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