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Evie Rhodes

Director/Playwright

Evie Rhodes was born in Newark, New Jersey. She authored the book, “EXPIRED” which was critically acclaimed to be “One of a Kind!” Black Issues Book Review called Rhodes a Master writer, gifted and skillful. Romantic Times Book Reviews said of her work it holds the reader’s attention as if the pages are magnetized. Evie is now making her first foray into the theatrical world of Off Broadway Theater with her searing Stage Play, “Looking Through the Stained Glass Window” a witty and illuminating coming of age story about Crystal Waterman a forgotten, Black, female voice in 1992 during the AIDS epidemic. The explosive portrayal explores the cyclical effects of trauma and addiction through reflection and humor in the middle of Harlem’s Hip Hop era.  Evie Rhodes is a Social Activist at heart, and her many works speak to her love of humanity.

Rebecca Jones

Co-Director

Rebecca Jones recently arrived in New York from Alabama where she studied Theatre Performance and Directing at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She was accepted into the SITI Company's Intensive program and has trained under Anne Bogart. Herrecent work, Women of War, was an original production commissioned by the University of Alabama. Further directing credits include Troy Women Odess Theatre AL, Savage/Love Public Parks Birmingham AL, Beatles: A Cabaret Tour UAB commission, Little Princess Blackberry Little Theatre AL. She was awarded the  Kennedy Center's SDC National Directing Fellowship for her direction of 140 by Marsha Norman and has participated in the MFA Playwriting Workshop at Kennedy Center.

Renita Lewis

as Crystal Waterman, Mama

RENITA LEWIS hails from Birmingham, AL where she studied and earned a Theatre degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham.

Credits include: The Tempest (Caliban), Photo Play (Young Esther/Dee), LORDES (Ensemble), Midsummer’s Night Dream (Titania), Women of War (Poet), Rabbit Hole (Becca), Big Love (Thyona), Macbeth (Lady Mcduff/ Witch), Don’t Trifle With Love (Chorus Speaker).