MULATTO MATH Comes To United Solo Fest After Hit Back To Back L.A. Runs

Following a hugely successful run at both The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, and at The Hollywood Fringe Festival (winning the Encore Producers' Award), MdB Productions is pleased to present Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America at United Solo Fest 2018. Featuring playwright and internationally award-winning performer Monique DeBose and directed by NAACP-winning director Denise Dowse. The show will have one performance at United Solo Fest on Saturday, September 15th at 9pm. Running time is 65 minutes.

Award-winning writer and international performer Monique DeBose explores race, family and identity through her unique lens of being born to a southern African American father and Irish upstate New York mother. Performed with original music, Monique exposes the beauty, disgrace and complication of both the black and white worlds she experienced growing up amid the political and racial tension in the eighties that is still prevalent today. Experience the bravery, vulnerability, hilarity, ignorance and ridiculousness that is race and identity in America.

LA native Monique DeBose is an award-winning, multi-talented playwright and Jazz-R&B-pop singer/songwriter, who has toured and entertained audiences throughout Europe, India and Asia. Her third album-The Sovereign One-is scheduled for release on September 27, 2018. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique now leads an international community of over 500 vocal artists throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by her experience of of what it means to be half African American, half Irish American, she wrote the funny, heartwarming and disruptive one-woman show Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America to initiate conversation and heal race relations in America. She calls LA home, is married to a Brit and is raising two compassionate, culturally intelligent boys.

Denise Dowse, originally from Honolulu Hawaii the daughter of a Naval officer, graduated from Norfolk State University with a BA in English/Theatre. Denise is best known to television audiences for her recurring role as Vice-Principal Mrs. Teasley on the long running hit Beverly Hills 90210 and was a series regular on the sitcom Built to Last. She's guest starred on shows such as BRAVO'S new series The Imposters (recurring), Murder in the First (recurring), ABC's Secrets & Lies, Criminal Minds, Saving Grace, The Mentalist, Law & Order, Charmed, The Guardian (recurring) and The West Wing. Her feature film work includes The Call, Ray, Coach Carter, Reign Over Me and Requiem for a Dream. When not working in television or film Denise wears other hats. She's been seen onstage throughout Los Angeles in Dr. Morrow's Three Times a Lady, Sassy Mamas, Above the Line, Darker Face of the Earth, Vagina Monologues, South of Where We Live and Othello. As a five time NAACP Best Director recipient Denise began directing in Germany where she held the position of theatre specialist and built a program consisting of active duty military and their families alongside German nationals before moving to Los Angeles and eventually began to direct here.