Events

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TOUSSAINT Readings

June 23rd, 2004 - June 24th, 2004

Martine Chartrand, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, James Early, JaBen Early, Orlando Bagwell, Margaret Wilkerson, Manthia Diawara, Clyde Taylor and others

credit and copyright Belvie J. Rooks

On June 23rd and 24th 2004, a group of seasoned actors gathered in New York at the invitation of Danny Glover to read the TOUSSAINT script. The first reading took place in a theatre before a small audience of filmmakers and other artists, and provided the director, writers and other partners in the film to gauge how the script was working. The second reading took place at the home of Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan for an audience of peers, producers, funders and friends of the project. Footage shot during the readings will likely be included in the The Making of TOUSSAINT documentary. In the meantime, we have included some photos from the event here on the Louverture site.


The Artists who generously gave their time to the reading included:

Dean Badarou
Paul Campbell
Lavonda Elam
Giancarlo Esposito
Frédéric Gilles
Ben Guillory
Mireille Metellus
Josh Pais
Patrick Rameau
Roger Guenveur Smith
Karen Williams
Michael K. Williams
Jeffrey Wright


Special thanks to those Artists who were willing but at the last minute unavailable due to scheduling conflicts:

Isaach de Bankolé
Willem Dafoe
Gwendolen Hardwick
Sarah Jones
Angélique Kidjo
Sonja Sohn


Additional thanks to those who assisted in making the
readings possible:

Esailama Artry-Diouf
Jan Baracz
Puloma Basu
Karen Bolt
Joe Brewster
Lloyd Handworker
Sarisa Middleton
Judith Ming
Martina Radwan
Kevin Stanton
Michele Stephenson
Trudy Williams

And especially Kathy Engel