ajusticenetwork is excited to collaborate w/ Nxt Thrsdy and Brownbox Theatre to bring Black To My Roots; African American Tales from the Head and the Heart to Edinburgh, Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025!
Support this Award-Winning Play’s Global Journey by making a tax-deductible donation towards our 20k Goal!
We are the cast and creative team of the award-winning play,
BLACK TO MY ROOTS: African American Tales from the Head and the Heart, co-written by Kathya Alexander and Reneschia Brown.
Black To My Roots tells the personal, social, and political implications of Black women’s hair and how it affects our self-esteem, social interactions, and career status based on society’s impressions about our hair. African American women have had a complex, convoluted, and unique relationship with hair. A relationship that is not only an important part of our collective American history, but deeply rooted in the personal, social, and political experience of Black women in the United States, popular culture, and the world.After a successful 25th Anniversary production of Black To My Roots at the
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute in Seattle this past November, Nxt Thrsdy in association with Brownbox Theatre, and ajusticenetwork have decided to take BTMR to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 1 – 25, 2025, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
This fundraising campaign is to raise the initial funding needed for our BTMR Family’s journey to Scotland:
- Adra Boo, Actress
- Brenda Melrose, Actress
- Muso Simekha, Actress
- Giavonna White, Actress
- Tonya White, Actress
- Kathya Alexander, Playwright
- Justice Beitzel, Assistant Director and Co-Choreographer
- Reneschia Brown, Playwright
- Tyrone Brown, Director and Nxt Thrsdy Founder and Producer
- Robin Campbell, Assistant Director and Co-Choreographer
- Stage Crew (pending)
- Assistant (pending)
Your contribution, no matter how big or small, will help cover upfront costs of festival registration fees, housing deposits, and marketing, as well as liability insurance, travel applications, and UK venue deposits.
Thank YOU in advance for contributing, for sharing our BTMR story with your friends, family, and colleagues, and for helping us on our journey to bring BLACK TO MY ROOTS to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest and oldest theatre festival.NXT THRSDY: Art | Event | Performance, is a Connecticut-based production company founded by Tyrone Brown.
BROWNBOX THEATRE: Re-Imagined Black Theatre, is a Seattle-based theatre company founded by Tyrone Brown, Reneschia Brown and Kathya Alexander.
We believe that the arts should be accessible to the community and inspire diverse and meaningful collaboration.
As a production company dedicated to encouraging the success of all it comes into contact with, ajusticenetwork is excited to watch this network grow, and to be a part of the healing social change that all our productions champion.