Imani HarringtonA bay area 'native born Californian' and a 'pioneer' and a local who happens to be born into a historic family of branched kin. Love & Danger was staged in 1997 at the Cleveland Health Museum. Her play Bitter Fruit (now with several titles one of whih is: Bitter Fruit, Water Bleu, Moon, Holy). Her play In Seven Moons was first given a professional table reading at the Oakland Ensemble Theater. Her plays have been some of the first to be in a museum settings, such as the 1997 Cleveland Health Museum and later in 2007 at (MOAd). Museum of the African Diaspora- her literary canon includes: Installation Play, Process Plays/Practice Plays-a Trilogy of past and current and continuing replications of archival works continue. She wrote a compilation collection of narratives in fiction work awarded as Jewel And Desire which won Poetry Flash, and Poets and Writers Grant in the early 90s. Her plays such as Master Swimmer was first produced at the Exit Theater. Cut In The Blood/AshesTo Dust was produced by On Q Productions at Story Slam in Carolina. During the early 90s she created the first Drama Therapy program at Baker Places. She collaborated as executive producing director taking her work to New York at Times Square. She is the recipient of the Cultural Equity Grant for Individual Writers twice and the California Arts Council once. Read More Read Less