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Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology

 
at The Mark Theatre
 
 
Created by
Tuesday Conner
Directed by
Phylliss Bailey Brooks
Produced by
Lynne Conner
 
Featuring
 
Gia Scott-Heron
Yawo Watts
The Oracle
Father Amde Hamilton
Lorenzo Frank
Artus Mansoir
Victor Orlando
Conney D. Williams
Tuesday Conner
 
 
 

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Cast

Gia Scott-Heron
Self
Tuesday Conner
Self
Conney Wiliams
Self
Yawo Watts
Self
Lorenzo Frank
Self
The ORACLE
Self
Artus Mansoir
Self
Victor Orlando
Self
Lynne Conner
Producer
conney d williams aka Mr. Beautiful
conney d williams
Tuesday Conner
Self
Lynne Conner
Producer
Victor Orlando
Special Guest Opening Act
Victor Orlando
Percussionist

Creative Team

Tuesday Conner

Writer | Executive Producer

Lynne Conner

Producer

Phylliss Bailey Brooks

Director

Meet the Company

Gia Scott-Heron

Self
Daughter of Gil Scott-Heron and Brenda Sykes.

Tuesday Conner

Self
International Awarding Winner Filmmaker and Playwright

Conney Wiliams

Self
Retired Artistic Director at The World Stage & World Stage Press

Yawo Watts

Self
Founder of the Erotic Poetry Event "Oralgasm"

Lorenzo Frank

Self
Host of SWAAM - Spoken Word Art and Music

The ORACLE

Self
Award Winning Poet Denise Lyles-Cook

Artus Mansoir

Self
Multitalented Musican and Poet

Victor Orlando

Percussionist
Victor Orlando - Percussionist Percussionist from the Gap Band, Chaka Khan, Billy Preston, Switch, Buddy Miles, Yarbrough & Peoples, and many more.

Victor Orlando

Special Guest Opening Act
Victor Orlando - Special Guest Opening Act Victor Orlando, Percussionist 2 The Stars. Body of Work Includes: Gap Band, Chaka Khan, Bobby Womack, L L Cool J, Switch, Angie Stone, Shanice, Billy Preston, Buddy Miles and More. Born in Dallas, Texas, moved to Los Angeles in the Late 70’s, and started playing and Touring. Later in the 80’s started performing on Albums and Videos. Along with Music, Victor Orlando has been acting for over 30 years, in T.V., Movies, Sitcoms, from Extra to Primary Roles. Musically, Victor Orlando has a Submitted for Grammy Award Nomination CD, (on, Victororlando.com). A Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House and President Biden. Currently Victor Orlando is working on a new Album of Afro Latin Jazz, due out in the fall of 2025. Along with starting a Victor Orlando HOPE Foundation for Prostate Cancer Testing for Uninsured Musicians, and Voice Over Reading of a Book for A Well Know Artist, Talks of a New Comedy Movie, Victor Orlando is Thanking God for All Of The Blessings Coming his Way.

Lynne Conner

Producer
Lynne Conner - Producer Lynne (Actor, Director, Producer, Filmmaker) hot off a New York run off-Broadway with Award-Winning Play GIL SCOTT-HERON BLUESOLOGY which Lynne produced and developed from vision to stage with her sister Tuesday Conner & directed the Los Angeles version winning the coveted Hollywood Fringe International Encore Series Award. Next, Lynne is directing feature film FROZEN ASSETS (Cherae Walton). Lynne can be seen in BET+ YOUNG, WILD, FREE (Thembi Banks), KINGS OF L.A. (Van Elder), COUNTED (#Winner 2024 Best Supporting Actress-168 Film Festival), & SNOOZE AIR (JoAnna Rhambo). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center Lynne produced multiple shorts including RAISING KINGS, YOUNG & NAIVE (Tuesday Conner), THE DRAGONFLY TALE (Lorey Hayes). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center some theatre credits include THE BOW WOW CLUB (Levy Lee), BONES OF LESSER MEN (L. Flint Esquerra), NOSTALGIA & DREAMS (Kerrie Keane), CHICAGO CLUB RUMBOOGIE (Jerry Jones-Dolemite), PASSING & JOLETA by Towne Street Theatre, and TRIBES (George C. Wolfe). www.LynneConner.com.

Tuesday Conner

Self
Tuesday Conner - Self Costume Designer by Trade, Writer at Heart, Tuesday steps out on a limb and directs her first short film “Young & Na!ve”. Immediately Tuesday becomes an International Award Winning Writer and Filmmaker. Her intensity as a Fashion Designer catches on fire as a Writer. Founder of Poet’s Jazz House and Inner City Cultural Center II. Since the age of seventeen at the Foxx Follies theatre Tuesday has been producing and providing artists a space to learn and grow and a place to perform and sell their art. This freelance multimedia powerhouse producer's creative vision has a long track record of successfully guiding a wide variety of projects from development to completion; from Award Shows to Fashion Shows, Films and an upcoming documentary series to Gil Scott-Heron's tribute at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City for an Off-Broadway run celebrating Black History Month. Tuesday was privileged to costume Broadway shows, Film, Recording Artist, Television and Tours around the world; from Mr T. to Eric Roberts and Chaka…Chaka Khan. Tuesday produced one of the hottest comedy clubs in The Valley and one of the coolest poetry lounges in the country, says CBS and BackstageWest. Tuesday Conner is a Young Saint, a proud prodigy of Operation Bootstrap, C.E.T.A. and Cliff Roquemore and she’s an Inner City Cultural Center Alumnus.

conney d williams aka Mr. Beautiful

conney d williams
Conney D. Williams is a poet, actor, community activist, and performance artist with three collections of poetry “The Distance of Observation (2021) “Leaves of Spilled Spirit from an Untamed Poet (2002)” and “Blues Red Soul Falsetto (2012).” In 2015, he released two critically acclaimed cds of his poetry accompanied by music titled: “River&Moan and Unsettled Water.” He is the former Artistic Director at the World Stage and Coordinator for the Anansi Writers Workshop; he’s also the cofounder of World Stage Press. His poems have also been published in various anthologies & journals including Dryland Review, Voices from Leimert, Cultural Weekly, Drumming Between Us, Askew Poetry Journal, Wide Awake Anthology, and Poets & Allies Anthology. He has performed his poetry on television, radio, universities & colleges, and various venues across the U.S. Email: dredcon@gmail.com Facebook: Conney Williams Instagram: dredconney Twitter: @Dredcon

Lynne Conner

Producer
Lynne (Actor, Director, Producer, Filmmaker) hot off a New York run off-Broadway with Award-Winning Play GIL SCOTT-HERON BLUESOLOGY which Lynne produced and developed from vision to stage with her sister Tuesday Conner & directed the Los Angeles version winning the coveted Hollywood Fringe International Encore Series Award. Next, Lynne is directing feature film FROZEN ASSETS (Cherae Walton). Lynne can be seen in BET+ YOUNG, WILD, FREE (Thembi Banks), KINGS OF L.A. (Van Elder), COUNTED (#Winner 2024 Best Supporting Actress-168 Film Festival), & SNOOZE AIR (JoAnna Rhambo). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center Lynne produced multiple shorts including RAISING KINGS, YOUNG & NAIVE (Tuesday Conner), THE DRAGONFLY TALE (Lorey Hayes). An alum of Inner City Cultural Center some theatre credits include THE BOW WOW CLUB (Levy Lee), BONES OF LESSER MEN (L. Flint Esquerra), NOSTALGIA & DREAMS (Kerrie Keane), CHICAGO CLUB RUMBOOGIE (Jerry Jones-Dolemite), PASSING & JOLETA by Towne Street Theatre, and TRIBES (George C. Wolfe). www.LynneConner.com.

Victor Orlando

Self
Percussionist for The Gap Band

Tuesday Conner

Writer | Executive Producer
International Award Winning Filmmaker, Writer and Producer

Lynne Conner

Producer
International Award Winning Filmmaker, Director and Producer

Phylliss Bailey Brooks

Director
A teaching artist for Dream A World, Inc. and for over 30 years she has been able to work on-set with some of tv’s most renowned producers, directors, writers, and the most talented crews in the industry.

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Angel Dust - by Gil Scott-Heron - Song by The ORACLE

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