December 12, 2003

Boise State Seeks Set Designer, Stage Manager For March Production

Boise State University Student Activities will produce the show “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange in spring 2004. A stage manager and set designer are needed for the production, slated for Mar. 10-13. For more information on these positions, contact Autumn Haynes at 426-3049. “For Colored Girls” is a tale of black women’s struggles and triumphs. Since its debut in 1975, it has been performed at many colleges and universities throughout the world and is a favorite offering during Women’s History Month in March. This production will mark the show’s premiere in Idaho. Rhoma Spencer, an actor, director, storyteller, play creator and broadcast journalist from Trinidad and Tobago, will direct. Spencer, dubbed by the press in her native countries as the first lady of rapso, was nominated at the New York Sunshine Music Awards in 1999 for her rapso selection “Ring bi ding.” Lady Spencer, as she is popularly known, was also awarded the best new artist and best-composed rapso awards at the TNT music awards that same year. She has acted in such plays as “Mother Courage,” “The Blacks” and “The Dragon Can’t Dance,” performing in the Caribbean, New York, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Vancouver. Spencer is a graduate of York University with a master’s degree in directing. -30- Contact Autumn Haynes Student Activities 208 426-3049 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275