Harlem9 named playwright a.k.payne to participate in the 12th annual 48Hours in…Harlem Festival, in which six short plays will be created over the span of 48 hours and performed live for two performances on Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at the National Dance Institute.

a.k. payne

a.k. Payne is a playwright, artist-theorist, and theatremaker with roots in Pittsburgh. Their work has been finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, winner of the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, and 3x semi-finalist for the O’Neill National Playwriting Conference. She is the current recipient of the Kemp Powers Commission Fund for Black Playwrights and Atlantic Theater Company‘s Judith Champion Launch Commission. Their work has been developed with the New Harmony Project, Great Plains Theater Conference, and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Groundworks Lab.