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ILLIE the GENIUS is an Afro-Queer visual and performance artist from Houston currently residing in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn who creates radical revolutionary art. Their work challenges social norms and calls for a complete dismantling of the current social system while offering a new all-inclusive narrative through music, painting, mixed media, film, and other performing arts.

WILLIE is a 2021 artist-in-residence at the People’s Theater Project where they are currently writing, producing, and starring in their solo theater and late-night talk show, “WILLIE GETS NAKED!” and planning an off-Broadway debut Summer 2021 as well as in pre- production of their scripted comedy-drama series “Will of Fortune”.

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Cris Eli Blak, Emma Denson, and More Among Downtown Urban Arts Festival 2023 Winners
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 24, 2023

The festival officially kicked off at Joe's Pub on May 5th and began performances on Wednesday, June 7th when two-time Tony Award winner Savion Glover and Tony Award and Grammy Award Nominee Reg E. Gaines came together for a conversation about theater and their Tony Winning Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk musical.
Downtown Urban Arts Festival Kicks Off Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 4, 2023

The DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL will present 16 plays (nine shorts and seven one-acts.) The festival kicks off on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6 when Savion Glover and Reg E. Gaines (Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk) make a much-anticipated return to The Public Theater with the centerpiece production If Trane Wuz Here. 
Downtown Urban Arts Festival Announces 2023 Finalists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 12, 2022

The Downtown Urban Arts Festival has selected the finalists for the 21st annual season to run Spring 2023 in Manhattan, NYC.

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