• Marta Effinger-Crichlow

Marta Effinger-Crichlow is a filmmaker, dramaturg, and writer, whose interdisciplinary work largely centers the lives of Black women and girls. She is the author of Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones. Marta, who is on the faculty at CUNY, has worked as a freelance dramaturg for productions throughout the US. She serves as the dramaturg for the film adaptation of Richard Wesley’s Black Terror (LA’s Waco Theater Center). She has also co-curated 400 Years of Inequality at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and has appeared on TEDx. She is in post-production on her documentary Little Sallie Walker. Recognition for this film project includes Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program, IFP/JustFilms Fellowship, the NY State Council on the Arts grant, Perspective Fund, Cucalorus Works in Progress Lab, DOC NYC’s OINY Program, Athena Works in Progress Lab, and Working Films Impact Kickstart. Marta is a proud mother of a daughter and the descendant of Black southern migrants who continue to shape her sensibilities. www.littlesalliewalker.com

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• What Else Can There Be? Black Play / Cultural (Dis)Locations