The Qommon Love
Play Cycle
Presents
“YOU”
A stageplay Written & Directed by Jha’Neal Blue
Cast & Crew
Actors: Bear Weng (DJ Two Times), Glorianna Chase (Marie), Anthonysha Warfield (Yasmine/Narrator), Ren Bogan (Langston), Del Williams (Angela), Sayana Seidakhmetova (Lin).
Open Mic Talent: Mareshah Dupree, Diamond Hasberry, Cindy Padilla, Stephon Pettway.
Production: Andrea Velazquez (SM), Paul Yorke (Sound), Ren Bogan (Co-Producer), Hera Kang (CRT Video Designer), Jha’Neal Blue (Co-Producer/Director).
The Color Brown
In 2020, Blue co-wrote, directed, and starred in a short film called The Color Brown. The story focuses on two siblings who met for the first time at their estranged mother’s gravesite. Blue pulled from deep within her life experiences and testimonies from other young women to bring her character, Love Wright, to life. Blue even tied in some of her original poetry throughout the film.
Read more here: The Color Brown - GEFO.
Watch the Trailer !
Logline: Upon visiting the gravesite of their estranged mother, two siblings who have never met attempt to unveil their mother’s greatest secrets, as they dissect their own lives, over the course of one night.
THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN
by Keenan Scott II
Coming back to her roots, Blue brought out FSU’s Mass Communication 488 Multi-Cam class to help her, and Grammy-nominated cinematographer, Jimmy Powell Jr, film the stream for Keenan Scott II's Thoughts of A Colored Man Production. The production featured several notable alumni and current theatre students.
Featured artists:
Students: Dustin Muir, Richard Irakoze, Alyvia Mazer, Keith Gill
Annie Danzi (Assc. Prof), Jimmy Powell Jr. (DP), Jha’Neal Blue (Director).
Hartford Stage
Presents
Trouble In Mind
Written by Alice Childress
Direction: Christopher D. Betts
Assistant Director: Jha’Neal Blue
In the spring of 2023, Blue was brought on by Trouble in Mind at the Hartford Stage regional theatre as an Assistant Director alongside Director and Joyce C. Willis Fellow Christopher Betts. The show ran from May 25th to June 18th and featured Broadway actress Heather Alicia Simms as the lead, Wiletta Mayer. The cast included: John Bambery (Al Manners), Sarah Lyddan (Judy Sears), Chelsea Lee Williams (Millie Davis), Michael Rogers (Sheldon Forrester), Richmond Hoxie (Henry), Sideeq Heard (John Nevins), James Joseph O’Neil (Bill O’Wray), and Adam Langdon (Eddie Fenton). Please enjoy a few of the photos from the production’s run!
The Vagina Monologues
Written by Eve Ensler
Direction: Jha’Neal Blue
Students, faculty, and staff at Frostburg State University gather for a group photo to celebrate their VM campaign.
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”