VideoGiving Voice, A Documentary About the August Wilson Monologues Competition, Heads to Netflix December 11Budding stage performers shine in the film, also featuring Tony winners Viola Davis and Denzel Washington.
By
Dan Meyer
December 11, 2020
The bright future of Broadway performance is waiting to be discovered in Giving Voice, a documentary following several teenage finalists in the 2018 August Wilson Monologues Competition, streaming on Netflix December 11.
Since 2007, thousands of students from 12 cities across the United States have performed the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner鈥檚 work for a shot to perform on Broadway, mentored by the competition's co-founders, Kenny Leon and Todd Kreidler, as well as hundreds of educators. Giving Voice captures several 2018 finalists discovering themselves and the world around them through Wilson鈥檚 鈥淐entury Cycle,鈥� the canon of ten plays (including Fences, Jitney, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) portraying the 20th century African American experience.
Nia Sarfo in Giving Voicec/o Netflix
The film features footage of the late playwright along with interviews of Tony winners Viola Davis and Denzel Washington, Wilson鈥檚 widow Constanza Romero, and others, as they share the impact that Wilson鈥檚 artistry has had on their lives and their hopes for the young people carrying it forward.
Giving Voice also features the new song 鈥淣ever Break鈥� co-written by EGOT winner John Legend (who won a Tony as a producer of Jitney) with Nasri Atweh, Benjamin Hudson McIldowie, and Greg Wells.
Directed by James D. Stern and Fernando Villena, the documentary screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Audience Choice Award. Giving Voice is an Endgame Entertainment and Pilgrim Media Group Production in association with Endeavor Content, Impact Partners, Get Lifted Film Co, and JuVee Productions.
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14 Times August Wilson Played on Broadway
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Theresa Merritt in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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James Earl Jones in Fences on Broadway, 1987
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