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Freedom Train Productions
Freedom Train Productions is a black queer theater company dedicated to political art and social activism that engages artists and audiences.

Its mission is to develop challenging and controversial narratives about the universal struggle for freedom and transformation through the lens of black queer protagonists. In doing this work Freedom Train Productions creates a safe home where theatre about black queer protagonists can change the world and make it safer for marginalized communities to exist, believing that in a society where freedom of expression is regularly under attack, this work is critical.

History
Founded in 2006 with an Open Society Institute/NYU Wagner Social Justice Fellowship, Freedom Train Productions is a theatre and a movement. The stories of resident playwrights have gone on to be performed at The Public Theater's Emerging Writer's Program, Emerging Artists Theater's One Woman Standing Performance Series, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theater's Youngblood Residency, Fire & Ink: Cotillion Conference, Northwestern University, Columbia University, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, Subjective Theatre Company, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Audre Lorde Project.

Freedom Train Productions is a member of The Alliance of Resident Theatres of New York, Audre Lorde Project's Leadership Round table for Queer People of Color-Led Organizations, and is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

Current and past major funders include The Union Square Arts Awards, a project of the Tides Foundation, Stonewall Community Foundation, Open Society Institute/NYU Wagner Social Justice Fellowship, and Brooklyn Arts Council.

Resident Playwrights

 * Jesse Cameron Alick
 * Sharon Bridgforth
 * Andrea E. Davis
 * Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
 * Steve Harper
 * Andre Lancaster
 * Ione Lloyd
 * Ayanna Maia
 * Derek Lee McPhatter
 * Nick Mwaluko
 * Azure D. Osborne-Lee
 * Jerome A. Parker
 * LaTonia Phipps
 * Harrison David Rivers
 * Aurin Squire

Links
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