Past Performances

Local Tours:

• Ladyfest Midest Chicago (2001), presented Carolyn Gage's "Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist." featuring ensemble members Ronda Bedgood and CC Carter.
  
• Guild Complex /Chopin Theater The Best of A Real Read"/Body Language
  
• Bailiwick Arts Center Conversation with a Diva, Colorphobia
  
• Bailiwick Arts Center ALL OUT festival
  
• Chicago's first Black Gay Pride Week: "Independence "99 Coming 2gether as 1" Cultural Nite
  
• Fire & Ink: A Writers Festival for GLBT People of African Descent. Also
  
• Adodi Chicago Kwanzaa Celebration.
  
• Chicago Neighborhood Tours: Gay & Lesbian History Tour
  
• Astraea Foundation benefit
  
• Black Ensemble Theatre
  
• Black Radical Congress
  
• Chicago Black Lesbians and Gays & Horizons' Fund-raisers
  
• 1999 Color Triangle Jam
  
• Chicago Black Pride 2000
  
• Blacklines Magazine First Anniversary Celebration
  
• Third Annual Chicago Black Lesbian and Gay's Unity Conference
  
• The Field Museum's Kente Community Projects
  
• American Psychological Association, National Convention
  
• Last House On The Block African-American Lesbian and Gay Recovery Group
  
• Yahimba Multi-Cultural Conference
  
• Illinois Federation For Human Rights benefits, A Statement for Freedom 4 & 5
  
• 9th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
  
• Chicago Department of Public Health's World AIDS Day Ceremony
  
• Randolph Street Gallery Trace Series
  
• National Association of Artists' Organizations
  
• McClean County AIDS Task Force
  
• It's Time Illinois
  
• The Gerber Hart Library and Archives
  including a November 2000 performance with Good Company Inc., an African American Performance ensemble from Atlanta, Georgia
  
• Insight Arts

  and many other Chicagoland organizations.

National Tours

• A Real Read, in collaboration with The Theater Offensive, performed for Out On The Edge: The 1999 Festival of Gay and Lesbian Theater, in Boston, MA.
  
• 10th Annual National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, Long Beach CA
  
• Men of Color Motivational Group, Detroit MI
  
• 1st Lambda Literary Writer's Conference (Behind The Mask), Washington, DC
  
• OutCharlotte 98, Charlotte, NC
  
• UJIMA, Community Service Organization, Milwaukee, WI
  
• Outspoken (Fort-Wayne, Indiana)
  
• LOC/Women of Color and the Milwaukee's LGBT Center, Colorphobia .
  

Educational Institutions:

• University of Illinois at Chicago, The Best of A Real Read  (part of Unity Month)
  
• New York University's African Heritage Month Committee
  
• 1998 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender College Conference
  
• Illinois State University
  
• University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
  
• John Marshall Public High School, Chicago, Illinois

Film:

• Leaving The Shadows Behind
  produced by Mary F. Morten
  
• Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
  produced and directed by Yvonne Welbon

Radio/Television:

• Lesbigay Radio, Chicago, Illinois
  
  • HIV/AIDS Safer Sex Public Service Announcements
    
  • This Moment in African-American LGBT History
    
• The Chicago Department of Public Health's World AIDS Ceremony 1997
  
• In The Life, The Public Broadcast System
  
• In April 2001, several members of A Real Read were seen in the pilot episode of Kevin's Room on shown in prime-time on WPWR Channel 50. Kevin's Room is a 60 minute drama that explores issues such as Gay relationships, HIV testing, HIV drug adherence, and sexual risk taking in the lives of African American Gay men. The film addresses cultural and community barriers which may contribute to poor health outcomes for Gay men, including coming out, family shame and religious issues. Kevin's Room is a coproduction of the Chicago Department of Public Health and Black Cat Productions. Sharon Zurek served as the Producer and Director of Kevin's Room. This film is an official entry in the 2001 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and the 25th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. For more information on Kevin's Room please call Lora Branch, Director of Lesbian and Gay Health at the Chicago Department of Public Health, 312-747-9632.