WordSlanger
A world class performance artist
Alameda County Arts Leadership Awardee
Recognized by Theater Bay Area
as one of the 40 faces to impact theater in
the Bay Area
Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame
Inductee
San Francisco Foundation Bay Area Arts Leadership Awardee
WordSlanger
“A tour de force”, Author, Ishmael Reed.
“My brightest student”, Author, Marvin X
“A stone pony”, Washington Burns, MD, Exec Director, Prescott Joseph Center
“Street poetry for the masses” J.R. Valrey, When the word becomes flesh, Interview
"One of the best of our times", Pri Thomas
I create therefore I am."" WordSlanger
Producing Director of The Lower Bottom Playaz, the Founding Artistic Director of The Sister Thea Bowman Memorial Theater, Associate Director of Recovery Theatre Inc, and Recovery Theater: San Francisco., Founder of the Sister Thea Bowman Memorial Theater Day Camp free for kids 5-18, an Artist Educator, independent Arts Programming Consultant, independent acting and writing coach. Nzinga is an actress, solo spoken word performance artist, and a published essayist, poet, and playwright.
The Work
Beyond the Bars: Growing Home
Ticky. Ticky. Boom!
part of
Overnight voted best Anthology by Theater Bay Area
Collective Acts Theater Festival
The American Century Cycle Project
by August Wlson
Zara's Faith by Marc Sapir
Beyond the Bars by Ayodele Nzinga
52 Letters by Regina Evans
Tasha by Cat Brooks
Too Much Woman for this World by
Khy Wiginton
Out of Control by Opal Palmer
Mama at Twilight: Death by Love an original play
San Francisco Theater Festival
East Side Arts Alliance
Sister Thea Bowman Memorial Theater
The Flight Deck
Flowers for the Trashman by Marvin X-
S.F. Theater Festival
East Side Arts Alliance
The Legendary Black Dot Performance Cafe & Gallery
Collective Acts Festival
Bathroom Graffiti Queen- by Opal Palmer Adisa- S.F. Theater Festival
East Side Arts Alliance
Sr. Thea Bowman Memorial Theater
The Legendary Black Dot Performance Cafe & Gallery
Collective Acts Festival
Mack: A Gangsta’s Tale- WordSlanger’s version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Sister Thea Bowman Memorial Theater
East Side Arts Alliance
Richmond Civic Auditorium
Discography
The SorrowLand Rebellion released January 2010 by Black Apes Music http://wordslanger.bandcamp.com/
Books & Collections:
Allegories of Altars
Habanero Butterfly
Sun Up on a poet
Children’s Stories
LiteBread Bluz Anthology
Above the Noize
Blackberry Lemonade
Flatlandz and other Ghetto Tales
Works in Progress:
The Prayers of Heretics,
The New Millennium Dime
INK
August Wilson Century Cycle 2019
Published:
Nomadic Press
JUICE Magazine
Environmental Terrorist Anthology
ChickenBones a Journal
Black Magnolias
Pan African Journal of Poetry
Say it Loud, James Brown Anthology
We Inhale Publishing and Production
Visions Magazine, 2015
