Former Booker T Washington Students Lead BLACK NATIVITY Holiday Performance

Bishop Arts Theatre will present its annual holiday production of Black Nativity inspired by Langston Hughes' hand-clapping, toe-tapping, finger-snapping retelling of the Christmas story. Black Nativity runs from December 1-18, 2022 for three consecutive weekends at Bishop Arts Theatre.

This year's production is the heartwarming retelling of the Nativity story that includes Gospel music, dramatic dance, and a biblical narrative. This year's production will be directed by Sheridan Singleton with choreography by J. Alexander Langley.

A 2008 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, Sheridan received a B.F.A. in theater from Point Park University in 2012. As a performer, she had the privilege of participating in a four-week summer intensive with the world-renowned Siti Company, and was trained in the Tadashi Suzuki Method of movement and Viewpoints in 2011. After moving to the city of Chicago, she began working with interdisciplinary arts company Mozawa and helped create and devise new works such as FALLEN, Y Portraits: Awakening, and a devised piece based on Strindberg's A Dream Play, all of which involved collaborating with artists from all mediums. While in graduate school, Sheridan co-founded F.I.E.R.C.E. Theater Collective and produced work that brought together the artists and their audience. After receiving her Masters degree in Arts, Media, and Entertainment Management from Columbia College Chicago in 2018, she joined Chicago Opera Theater as their development assistant, and eventually became the Executive Assistant to the General Director and the Board Liaison. Sheridan returned to Dallas in 2020 and worked as a General Management Associate at Cry Havoc Theatre.

J. Alexander Langley is an alumnus of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX. He went on to study Dance at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA before returning to Dallas to pursue his professional dance career. Alex has performed as a principal dancer with 6 o'Clock Dance Theatre, Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, and Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, as a soloist with Dallas Neoclassical Ballet, and as a production cast dancer with Princess Cruises. He has also performed in regional productions of "La Cage Aux Folles", "Disney's TARZAN: the Musical", and "Fiddler on the Roof". His choreography has been performed by Dallas Black Dance Theatre II, Anita N. Martínez Ballet Folklorico, and 6 O'Clock Dance Theatre. Alex has also been fortunate enough to choreograph musical plays like "Disney's Newsies", "RENT: School Edition", "The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical", and "La Cage Aux Folles".

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