UPCOMING
Saturday, June 21
3:00 – 5:30 pm
The LP Storefront
1476 Fulton Street
Playwrights Horizons: Free Playwriting Workshop
Facilitated by UGBA
Playwrights Horizons is teaming up with The LP to offer a free playwriting workshop for our Bed-Stuy community!
Playwrights Horizons is an Off-Broadway theater that produces world and regional premieres of new plays by living writers.
Join this workshop if you’re interested in learning the craft of a good monologue. Jump in and see where this essential theatrical skill could take you!
Free dinner will be provided!
About the Artist
Ungrateful Black Artist (UGBA – ‘oog ba’) (Playwright, pronoun inclusive) is a queer poet, rapper, playwright, actor, and activist based out of Brooklyn, NY. UGBA is the founder/host of CEREMONIES—a Brooklyn based monthly Black-Queer artist showcase held in honor of Essex Hemphill. UGBA is also the founder of “Dark-Skin Support Group,” a virtual support network for dark-skin Black Americans in need of a space to discuss the realities of colorism. In 2020, UGBA was named a “Black LGBTQ+ playwright you need to know ” by Time Out NY. UGBA also served as script assistant for the Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time TONY nominated play “Fat Ham” on Broadway. He is an alumnus of The Public Theater’s #BARS program and The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group 2020-2023 cohort. UGBA is the recipient of the Founder’s Award from New York Stage and Film, a 2023 Artivism Fellow through Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a 2022 MAP Grant recipient, a 2020-2021 BAM Resident, former Artistic Director at NY Writers Coalition, and current 2025 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team member.