Keymáh makes history and Atlanta Black Theatre Festival Debut!
Los Angeles, CA (BlackNews.com) – Actress T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh will join more than one hundred fellow HistoryMakers across the country for the fourth annual Back-to-School with the HistoryMakers. On Friday, September 27, Principal Jeremy McDavis will welcome Keymáh and journalist / best selling author Sylvester Monroe to Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. The HistoryMakers’ theme again this year is ‘Commit.’ Participating students will be asked to commit to living their lives with positive purpose. In 2010, Keymáh participated in the HistoryMakers’ inaugural back-to-school program at Pearl Cohn High School in Nashville. In 2011, she spoke at her alma mater, St. Sabina Academy in Chicago, and last year at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy during a trip to Atlanta for her induction into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame.
On Friday, October 4 at 10pm and Saturday, October 5 at 2pm, Keymáh will perform in Stage Aurora’s Darryl Reuben Hall’s Frat House, during the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. Based on the parable of the prodigal son and with soul music and soulful stepping, Frat House is the story of a Pastor’s son who joins a college fraternity against his father’s advice. Tony Award winner Melba Moore, and Broadway performer Darryl Reuben Hall will also star. Shows are on the main stage of The Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive in Decatur, GA, 650-440-PLAY. Keymáh performed in Stage Aurora’s Jacksonville, FL productions of Black to My Roots and Miss Evers’ Boys. A regular at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem NC, which she Co-Chaired in 2011, Keymáh will be performing at the Atlanta festival for the first time. “I love Atlanta,” she says “and can’t wait to perform there again!”
Last seen as Dr. Blair Riley in BET’s top rated Let’s Stay Together, Keymáh recently signed with The Polygon Group Talent Agency (Karim Muhammad). The Burbank, California based company will represent Keymáh for Film and Television.
T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh is known worldwide as a series regular on Fox’s Emmy award-winning In Living Color, CBS’ hit, COSBY, and Disney’s That’s So Raven, and has received acclaim for her self-penned solo shows, Some of My Best Friends and Don’t Get Me Started, and her variety show, T’Keyah Live! She directed the world premiere of the stage production Route 66: Finding Nat King Cole and is the author of the popular coffee table book, Natural Woman / Natural Hair.
