Current Events & Publications
Turpentine Jake to be Published
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. Turpentine Jake: A Play in Two Acts. Marymount Institute Press / A Tsehai Publishers Imprint. Forthcoming, Fall 2011.
Past Events & Publications
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting
Nashville, TN. Oct. 13–16, 2010
"Turpentiner Rhetoric: The Lore of Spoke Word Resistance".
Association for Theater in Higher Education, Los Angeles
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “A Gentleman by an Act of Congress” in “On the Front Line: Three Generations of Soldiers' Voices,” ATHE (Association for Theater in Higher Education), Los Angeles. Aug. 4, 2010.
Great Plains Theater Conference
Omaha, NE. May 29–June 6, 2010
Mainstage Evening performance of Turpentine Jake Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 7:30pm, Omaha Community Playhouse.
St. Robert's Auditorium, LMU
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “Lies Have Short Legs” in “Stages of AIDS,” St. Robert's Auditorium, LMU, November 30-December 1, 2009.
Actors Gang Theatre, Los Angeles
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “A Gentleman by an Act of Congress” in “On the Front Line: Three Generations of Soldiers' Voices,” Actors Gang Theatre, Los Angeles, November 10 & 11, 2009.
“Recovering the Voices of the Florida Turpentine Slaves: A Lost Rhetoric of Resistance,” Chapter two in Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “Recovering the Voices of the Florida Turpentine Slaves: A Lost Rhetoric of Resistance,” Chapter two in Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric, ed. Anne Meade, Stockdell-Giesler, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.
Bellarmine Forum, LMU
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “A Gentleman by an Act of Congress” in “On the Front Line: Three Generations of Soldiers' Voices,” Bellarmine Forum, Murphy Auditorium, LMU, October 29, 2009.
Georgia Agrirama, Home of the Last Standing Turpentine Still in America
Special Live Performance of Scenes from Turpentine Jake and Screening of Filmed
Version of World Premiere Performance of Turpentine Jake (Los Angeles 2008, Del Rey Theater)
Friday, July 31 at 7pm and Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 3pm on the Agrirama Grounds, Turpentine Shanty
Directed by James E. Hurd, Jr.
USVAA Theatre, Los Angeles
L. Bannister and J. Hurd. “A Gentleman by an Act of Congress” in “On the Front Line: Three Generations of Soldiers' Voices,” USVAA Theatre, Los Angeles, July 11, 2009.
Juneteenth 2009 2nd Annual Urban Arts Festival
Lincroft, NJ. June 16–21, 2009
Signature Event: Staged Reading of Turpentine Jake Sunday, June 21, 2009
7:00–10:00pm Brookdale Community College Long Branch Higher Education Center, Room 202
Directed by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr.
4th Annual Fort Omaha Film Conference
Omaha, NE. May 29–30, 2009
Poet of the Swingin' Blade finalist in Art/Experimental Film Category
Screening Date and Time TBA
Great Plains Theater Conference
Omaha, NE. May 23–31, 2009
Staged reading of Turpentine Jake Thursday, May 28, 9:00am–12:00pm
FOC 7 107 (Theater on the First Floor)
Directed by Denise Chapman