THE ONI FUND
No amount is too small.
MUD/BONE celebrates the life journey of our dear friend and resident playwright Oni Faida Lampley. We ask that you visit her family sponsored website www.theonifund.com to learn more about her and find ways that you can help her two sons complete their education. At this time, the theater collective is taking a necessary break. Oni’s latest writing project was to be a theatrical adaptation of the children’s book TAMBOURINE MOON by Joy Jones. The production was scheduled for May 15th and 17th at BRICStudios in Brooklyn. Please check back in June for updates on our future.
Thank you.
Michael Wiggins, artistic director
Oni Faida Lampley was raised in Oklahoma City. A lot of her work grows out of the comedy and the conflicts of growing up Black in the Midwest in the 70’s. She's especially interested in taking a machete to the cliché of the "Strong Black Woman" (SBW), to expose the physical and spiritual exhaustion, the self-denigration, and authentic triumph underneath. Through it all, Lampley celebrates the spirit, language, and courage of people who are fighting for love, and survival.
She has received two Helen Hayes nominations, winning the first. She won entrance into the 1998 Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and is currently working on a commission from South Coast Repertory theatre. As a member of Juilliard’s Playwrighting Program, Lampley received The Lincoln Center LeComte du Nouy Award. Other grants and commissions include the Smithsonian Institute, a William and Eva Fox Foundation grant, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a commission from Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and a NYSCA grant via Brooklyn Information and Culture (BRIC). She is a New Dramatists Fellow and Resident Playwright with MUD/BONE Theater company. She has written for popular magazines, and became a member of New Dramatists in 2004. She leaves a husband and two sons.
OUR MISSION
MUD/BONE Theater Company supports a creative community of professional artists working in various performance related disciplines. We produce emotionally powerful works of art for a diverse urban audience, nurture professional artists of color and invite people of all colors, ages, backgrounds and levels of experience to come together to learn, practice and create artwork that they can share with others.
We are a people of color-led organization based in the New York City.
Email: info@mudbone.org http://www.mudbone.org
Tel: (718) 620-2824
Fax: (718) 620-2810
Mailing Address: PO Box 740190 Bronx, NY 10474
