Earth, Wind & Car Fire A storytelling joyride… at Willie Agee Playhouse

Janora McDuffie extends her captivating journey of self-discovery and transformation in Earth, Wind & Car Fire with performances this fall.

In this 60-minute storytelling adventure McDuffie navigates love, race and sexuality. Told with humor, heart and a whole lot of soul, this joyful coming-of-truth experience invites audiences into a world of personal reckoning, joyful discovery, and unapologetic authenticity. 

Directed by acclaimed solo performance director Joseph Megel (Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown) this solo show is a celebration of life’s contradictions and the courage to tell it all.

The Willie Agee Playhouse presents The UNerasable Solo Festival, celebrating the voices of artists whose stories are too often silenced. In an era where narratives are under attack, these solo performances stand as acts of defiance - raw, unfiltered, and unforgettable. The festival spans from September 11 - 28, 2025, with performances Thursdays through Sundays at The Willie Agee Playhouse (714 Warren Lane) inside Edward Vincent, Jr. Park in Inglewood. Featuring a diverse array of ten solo artists, the festival offers three weeks of powerful personal stories. Spanning comedy, drama, song, music, poetry and more – the festival makes up a rich tapestry of cultural life that is sure to excite and delight audiences. Festival Website UnErasableFest dot com

Janora McDuffie is an actress, voiceover artist, speaker and host who brings authenticity and heart to every stage. Whether on screen, behind the mic, or in front of a live audience, she has built a dynamic and multifaceted career in entertainment.

Janora has appeared in hit television shows including NCIS, This Is Us, Truth Be Told, and Grey’s Anatomy.  Her voice has been featured in popular video games, ad campaigns and most notably, around the world as the Live Announcer for the 94th Academy Awards.

As a host, her most meaningful work was No More Down Low TV, an award-winning web series amplifying the voices of out and proud LGBTQ+ people of color.  Her passion for storytelling and advocacy extends to the podium where she has delivered multiple keynotes—including UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2023 Lavender Graduation as well as a TEDx talk.

Janora first performed “Earth, Wind and Car Fire” as a staged reading for the 25th Anniversary Black Queer Conference in April 2025.  She is honored to continue this in-progress work celebrating the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and art—bringing her voice, her story, and her full self to the stage.

Joseph Megel is artist in residence and teaching professor in Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Communication where he runs the Process Series: New Works in Development. He is Artistic Director of StreetSigns and Co-Executive Director of Harland’s Creek Productions, producer of new plays, screenplays, and short films. 

Off-Broadway and New York credits: Howard L. Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green (New York Times Critics Pick), Guillermo Reyes’s Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown (Outer Critics Circle Award), Dean Gray’s The Pattern at Pendarvis, Jim Grimsley’s The Lizard of Tarsus, The Working Project for The Working Theater.

Regional: Howard Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnation of Abel Green (Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles),  Craft’s Orange Light (Bulldog Ensemble Theater), Kane Smego’s Temples of Lung and Air (Detroit Public Theatre), Jennifer Maisel’s The Last Seder (EST West, Theatre J, The Organic Theatre); Elisabeth Lewis Corley’s adaptation of The Miser (Duke University); Derek Goldman’s adaptation of Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Chapel Hill); A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Best of Enemies, The Brothers Size, The Goat, and Nixon’s Nixon (Manbites Dog Theater).

Recent direction for StreetSigns includes: Cascade, Temples of Lung and Air, The Talk, Closer Than They Appear, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, Trojan Barbie, Blood Knot, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution, Dream Boy, and White People.