Actress and playwright Debra Ann Byrd's, Becoming Othello, explores her upbringing as a young girl raised in Spanish Harlem and a troubled personal history through her acclaimed gender-switched performance as the Moor of Venice. Byrd's life as a single mother provide her with the grounding and depth necessary to inhabit Othello, but it is the willing bravery to share her unseen truths that most resonates with her audiences. In this new adaptation of the play, in honor of the annual Harlem Week celebration, she mines the Shakespearean tradition to showcase the struggle, triumph and excellence of the uptown Black experience.

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