By Talaura Harms, Dan Meyer
Apr 13, 2021
Candis C. Jones and Erika Dickerson-Despenza
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The Public Theater presents the world premiere of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's audio play
Shadow/land April 13 as part of its spring digital theatre season. The play is available for free, on-demand streaming at Public Play Now as well as on all podcast platforms.
Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza is the Public's 2019-2020 Tow Foundation playwright-in-residence and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and Lilly Award recipient. She recently won the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for
cullud wattah, which was meant to debut at the Public last year but was canceled due to the pandemic.