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Saturday Matinees at The Fountain. Scott Tuomey & Keisha-Gaye Anderson

Scott Tuomey.has been Technical Director at the Fountain since its inaugural production of Winter Crane in 1990. He has overseen virtually every Fountain production, on and off site, including their numerous flamenco shows. Scott is also a gifted musician and a performer. He has appeared on our stage in Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, and the Fountain’s hit productions of Master Class and Joe Turners’ Come and Gone. Scott's talents as actor-singer-guitarist were also seen in the Shakespeare Festival L.A. productions of As You Like It and Twelfth Night at the Globe Theatre in West Hollywood and in the film A Day in the Life of Sunny Paradise.

 Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, author, and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Last year, she was selected as an Artist-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. Her poetry books include: Everything is Necessary (Willow 2019); Gathering the Waters (Jamii 2014); and Circle Unbroken (2003). Keisha also received the Editors’ Choice recognition for the Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origin Literary Award for Poetry (Agape Editions) for her poetry collection A Spell for Living. The book will be published in the fall as a full-length digital experience of poetry, Keisha's original art, and music, through the Morning House ebook series. Keisha's poetry, fiction, and essays have been widely published in national literary journals, magazines, and anthologies that include Small Axe Salon, Interviewing the Caribbean, Renaissance Noire, The Killens Review of Arts and Letters, Mosaic Literary Magazine, African Voices Magazine, Streetnotes: Cross Cultural Poetics, Caribbean in Transit Arts Journal, The Mom Egg Review, and others. Keisha is a past participant of the VONA Voices and Callaloo writing workshops, and was short-listed for the Small Axe Literary Competition. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University Newhouse School and holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from The City College, CUNY. Learn more about Keisha at www.keishagaye.ink, Facebook (facebook.com/keishagayeanderson), 

 

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