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Bridgit Antoinette Evans' performance in Venus alongside Tim Robbins was astonishing...one of the highlights of 25 years of attending theater. - WBAI
Bridgit Antoinette Evans is an award-winning actor, producer and humanitarian based in New York City. A great fan of new play development, she has appeared in readings, workshops, or productions at The Public Theater, Classical Theater of Harlem, Primary Stages, Urban Stages, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Arena Stage, ACT, Seattle Rep, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center...
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Bridgit Antoinette Evans is an award-winning actor, producer and humanitarian who has performed across the US and in South Korea, South Africa, UK, France and Brazil. A great fan of new play development, she has appeared in readings, workshops, or productions at The Public Theater, Classical Theater of Harlem, Primary Stages, Urban Stages, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, Hip Hop Theater Festival, Arena Stage, ACT, Seattle Rep, and Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, in plays by Radha Blank, Keith Josef Adkins, Tracey Scott Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carl Hancock Rux, Alex Beech, Derek McPhatter, Akin Salawu and other writers. Trained by Kristin Linklater at Columbia University (MFA), Bridgit is also an avid performer of Shakespeare, with Off Broadway/regional roles including Kate in Andrei Serban’s Taming of the Shrew, Paulina in Cynthia Croot’s Winter’s Tale, Maria in Robert Cohen’s Twelfth Night, and Richard in Jeanette Stamen’s adaptation of Richard III/Henry VI.
Bridgit is also the founder of FuelChange.net , a creative studio that produces collaborations between artists and human rights organizations. She served as Executive Producer and a lead actor in the historic presentation of Suzan-Lori Parks’ VENUS in Capetown, South Africa, and in the gala benefit performance of the play at The Public Theater/NYSF alongside Oscar-winner Tim Robbins, Kathleen Chalfant and Joe Morton. Her performances or productions have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, ABC News, SABC TV, Access Hollywood; and in Village Voice, NY Times, USA Today, Essence, VIBE, MTV, American Theatre Magazine and more.
Also a public speaker, Bridgit has offered popular talks and lectures on art and social change at Columbia University, NYU, Stanford University, Hunter College, FUNDA College/Soweto, and other institutions. She has received awards from Theater Communications Group, Arts International, Puffin Foundation, and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation; was nominated for the Ford Foundation’s Leaders for a Changing World Award; and has used the creative arts to raise more than $10 million for urgent causes across the globe.
Bridgit began writing novels at the age of four — a series of scintillating tales primarily centered around the nefarious adventures of Peter Rabbit. Today, her subject matters range from ethnic tensions in London in the months before September 11th, to the search for love in a world in conflict. Her first book of poetry, My Love Is Another Country, will be published in 2012.
A quintessential ‘third culture kid’, Evans was born in Germany and raised in Italy, Japan and Hawaii before attending Stanford University (BA) and Columbia University (MFA). She lives in New York City.
Bridgit Antoinette Evans
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[film + television]
SPIKE LEE'S BAMBOOZLED Lulu/Featured - 40 Acres and a Mule
ROD GAILES CAMOUFLAGE Mother/Supporting - OBC
LAW & ORDER: SVU Tawanda/Featured - NBC Primetime Television
NIGHT OWLS Isabel/Lead - At That Drop Prods (Multiple Awards)
[international]
FOR COLORED GIRLS Lady in Red - Seoul, Korea
SUZAN-LORI PARKS VENUS Venus - South African Tour
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Titania - Salvador, Brazil
[off broadway + regional]
RADHA BLANK'S SEED Anne /Lead - Arena Stage
RADHA BLANK'S SEED Anne /Lead - Classical Theatre of Harlem/HHTF
WINTERS TALE Paulina - Colorado Shakespeare (Equity Guest Artist)
TWELTH NIGHT Maria - Colorado Shakespeare (Equity Guest Artist)
ANDREI SERBAN'S TAMING OF THE SHREW Kate - La MaMa Annex
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Titania - Lincoln Center Lab (Workshop)
SUZAN LORI PARKS VENUS Venus - 2nd Stage/McGinn Cazale (Workshop)
OUR COUNTRYS GOOD Dabby Bryant - Theatre at Holy Cross
THE SAFETY NET LaShanda/Lead - Seattle Rep
THE MOONSHOT TAPE Solo - BRAVA! San Francisco
FOR COLORED GIRLS Lady in Red - Horace Mann Theatre
[readings]
BRAND: NEW 10 | 10 | 10 Supporting - Hartford Stage (w/ Kate Mulgrew)
SUZAN LORI PARKS VENUS Venus - The Public Theatre (w/ Tim Robbins)
TRACEY SCOTT WILSONS CAGED BIRD Lead - The Public Theatre
SMOKE, LILIES & JADE Lead - The Public Theatre
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY M.F.A. - STANFORD UNIVERSITY B.A.
SEED BY RADHA BLANK
How far are you willing to go to protect our children?
Bridgit will next lead the cast of the Off Broadway and World premiere of SEED, a new play written by Radha Blank, directed by Niegel Smith, and presented by the Classical Theatre of Harlem with Hip Hop Theater Festival.
SEED begins performances September 6th.
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To purchase tickets visit www.seedtheplay.com.
A passionate human rights activist who counts Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle and Kathleen Chalfant among her role models, Bridgit has spearheaded theatre, film, radio, music and other cause-related creative collaborations featuring acclaimed artists in partnership with humanitarian organizations. She served as an artist-delegate at the UN Global Forum to Fight Human Trafficking in Vienna; serves on the Advisory Boards for Call + Response: Artists Uniting to End Slavery and ShoeRevolt.com; was nominated for the Ford Foundation's 'Leaders for a Changing World' Award; and has traveled globally to speak about her work.
[make a difference]
Bridgit produces and performs in events and special projects to support numerous urgent causes, and hopes that you will explore ways to help:
The Movement to End Human Trafficking
+ GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services
+ Call and Response
+ ShoeRevolt
+ Free the Slaves
Genocide Prevention
+ GI Net/Save Darfur Coalition
+ Enough Project
Ending Violence Against Women
+ Sauti Yetu
+ Saartjie Baartman Center for Women and Children
Art, Culture and Media for Social Change
+ Fuel | We Power Change (founded by Bridgit)
+ Breakthrough: It Starts With You
+ EarSay Inc.
[featured action]
In order to inspire women across America to take action in support of girls and young women surviving child sex trafficking, Bridgit executive produced 'This Is to Mother You', an all-star charity single featuring Grammy-winners Sinead O'Connor and Mary J Blige and introducing Martha B. Sales of the song benefit GEMS. >> Learn More
Bridgit launched the creative studio Fuel | We Power Change in 2008 to build on her many years of work helping other artists - both emerging and high profile - partner with human rights and humanitarian organizations to pursue concrete change in the world.
Now a respected thought leader in the field of cause-related creative production, Bridgit melds her lifelong passion for art-making with her desire to be an agent for change. Over the years, Bridgit's productions have provided employment to dozens of other artists; she has traveled and worked on 5 continents, and helped galvanize over $10 million by inspiring individuals and communities to make and experience art.
[featured projects]
The Love/Youth Project
In 2010, Bridgit launched the Love/Youth Project to mobilize over 100 artists - including Sinead O'Connor, Henry David Hwang, Nilo Cruz, Antony and Johnsons, Matisyahu, Kia Corthron, Winter Miller and more - to write a collaborative play exploring the roots of bullying of LGBT youth. Scenes from the play were workshops in a lab day in 2011, and will be further developed in the Fall 2011 for a public presentation in early 2012.
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This Is to Mother You
Bridgit was an executive producer of the all-star charity music single This Is to Mother You featuring Sinead O'Connor, Mary J Blige and newcomer Martha B. The single debuted in December 2009 on the What's Hot list on iTunes, and related PSA videos have since been viewed by over 50,000 people. GEMS, the organization benefiting from the song's release, now has nearly75,000 online supporters helping them change the world for survivors of child sex trafficking. Visit www.gems-girls.org.
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Venus Worldwide
After performing in a workshop staging of Suzan-Lori Park's Venus at 2nd Stage/McGinn Cazale Theater, Bridgit launched Venus Worldwide to produce Venus in South Africa to explore the issue of gender violence. Her production of Venus premiered at the Windybrow Theater in Johannesburg, before its historic performance on National Women's Day in Capetown in conjunction with the repatriation and burial of the real-life Venus Hottentot aka Sarah Baartman. Bridgit has also performed Venus in all-star benefit readings at The Public Theatre and The Gatehouse at HarlemStage alongside Tim Robbins, Kathleen Chalfant, Joe Morton, Jayne Houdyshell, Andre DeShields, with music by Bongani Ndodana, and video by Zola Maseko. Bridgit has since completed Venus residencies in Zagreb, London, Paris and Vienna.
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View Bridgit's full production portfolio at www.fuelchange.net .
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