Happening in Harlem - Reparations: A Musical Reading!

Reparations: The Musical! explores the reparations debate with style, humor and a spirit of transformation. In this unique foray into Black history and future, a successful African American lawyer takes a case defending an insurance provider whose wealth was derived from the exploitation of enslaved Africans. When he encounters an ancient ancestor spirit with a mission to awaken him to his true identity, he is set on a journey toward love and liberation. 

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Joseph Edwards is an artist and educator whose work as an actor and playwright has been showcased on film, television, and stage. His stage adaptation of the classic autobiography of Claude Brown's Manchild In The Promised Land, originally produced at the American Place Theatre, was nominated for an AUDELCO Award for excellence in Black theater and was performed for more than fifty thousand students in New York City. 

Edwards won three AUDELCO awards for his critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of FLY, also presented at the National Black Theater Festival in North Carolina and at the HBO Performance Space in Los Angeles. 

He appeared in Bad Company, starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, and has had guest appearances on Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, and Rescue Me. Edwards has also appeared on Broadway in Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow, starring Alfre Woodard and Anthony Mackey. Off-Broadway he played "Officer Burt" in Urban Transitions with Chadwick Bozeman, and as "Boy Willie" in the Baltimore Center Stage production of August Wilson's Fences. He was a stand-out performer in Waiting to End Hell at the National Black Theater Festival. 

Edwards portrayed the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the St. Louis Black Repertory Theater production of The Meeting at the Kennedy Center, directed by Stephen McKinley Henderson. In the Williamstown Theater Festival production of A Raisin In The Sun starring Viola Davis and Rubin Santiago Hudson, he portrayed "Bobo". 

Most recently Joseph performed in Zora Neale Hurston: A Theatrical Biography at the Castillo Theater. 

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