@cfaarts.bsky.social
More resources mean more improv and more ways to uplift young artists, helping them build a lifelong love for the arts and even future careers.
Help us make it happen! With #GivingTuesday right around the corner, no donation is too small. Every dollar makes a difference.
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
Help us make it happen! With #GivingTuesday right around the corner, no donation is too small. Every dollar makes a difference.
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
More resources mean more improv and more ways to uplift young artists, helping them build a lifelong love for the arts and even future careers.
Help us make it happen! With #GivingTuesday right around the corner, no donation is too small. Every dollar makes a difference.
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
Help us make it happen! With #GivingTuesday right around the corner, no donation is too small. Every dollar makes a difference.
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
A magical evening with 25 talented Musical Theatre majors from Howard University for a performance of Hadestown at The National Theatre, all through our Invitation Program.
Grateful for moments like these!
Grateful for moments like these!
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A magical evening with 25 talented Musical Theatre majors from Howard University for a performance of Hadestown at The National Theatre, all through our Invitation Program.
Grateful for moments like these!
Grateful for moments like these!
Arthur Ashe, the only Black man to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open & the Australian Open, reminds us of the power of giving.
We’re 1 week away from #GivingTuesday! Join us in empowering young people through art. Your support helps us change lives.
Support CFA: tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
We’re 1 week away from #GivingTuesday! Join us in empowering young people through art. Your support helps us change lives.
Support CFA: tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Arthur Ashe, the only Black man to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open & the Australian Open, reminds us of the power of giving.
We’re 1 week away from #GivingTuesday! Join us in empowering young people through art. Your support helps us change lives.
Support CFA: tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
We’re 1 week away from #GivingTuesday! Join us in empowering young people through art. Your support helps us change lives.
Support CFA: tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
Improv provides so many benefits, things like creativity, confidence, stress relief and a welcoming community bond.
Our recent CFA improv workshop delivered all that and more! As we bring these skills to our youth, we’d love your support this season of giving @ tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
📸: Imani Ford
Our recent CFA improv workshop delivered all that and more! As we bring these skills to our youth, we’d love your support this season of giving @ tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
📸: Imani Ford
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Improv provides so many benefits, things like creativity, confidence, stress relief and a welcoming community bond.
Our recent CFA improv workshop delivered all that and more! As we bring these skills to our youth, we’d love your support this season of giving @ tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
📸: Imani Ford
Our recent CFA improv workshop delivered all that and more! As we bring these skills to our youth, we’d love your support this season of giving @ tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
📸: Imani Ford
Happy Birthday, Brandon!
We're so lucky to have you as a part of our organization! Your work and dedication truly inspires us. May this year bring you amazing success!
We're so lucky to have you as a part of our organization! Your work and dedication truly inspires us. May this year bring you amazing success!
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Happy Birthday, Brandon!
We're so lucky to have you as a part of our organization! Your work and dedication truly inspires us. May this year bring you amazing success!
We're so lucky to have you as a part of our organization! Your work and dedication truly inspires us. May this year bring you amazing success!
Save the date! You're invited to a wonderful holiday celebration of music, dance & puppetry with our CFA Rep Theatre, happening Dec. 13 at 11am!
Join us for an exploration of cultural traditions from Diwali to Kwanzaa, Las Posadas & more!
Free to RSVP: pgparks.com/event_list/h...
Join us for an exploration of cultural traditions from Diwali to Kwanzaa, Las Posadas & more!
Free to RSVP: pgparks.com/event_list/h...
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Save the date! You're invited to a wonderful holiday celebration of music, dance & puppetry with our CFA Rep Theatre, happening Dec. 13 at 11am!
Join us for an exploration of cultural traditions from Diwali to Kwanzaa, Las Posadas & more!
Free to RSVP: pgparks.com/event_list/h...
Join us for an exploration of cultural traditions from Diwali to Kwanzaa, Las Posadas & more!
Free to RSVP: pgparks.com/event_list/h...
Nourished, hopeful and invigorated.
Hearing this reaffirms just how crucial the State of DC Black Theatre really is!
Thanks, Bry, we're elated by your words & your experience!
Videographer: @creeseworks.bsky.social
Hearing this reaffirms just how crucial the State of DC Black Theatre really is!
Thanks, Bry, we're elated by your words & your experience!
Videographer: @creeseworks.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Nourished, hopeful and invigorated.
Hearing this reaffirms just how crucial the State of DC Black Theatre really is!
Thanks, Bry, we're elated by your words & your experience!
Videographer: @creeseworks.bsky.social
Hearing this reaffirms just how crucial the State of DC Black Theatre really is!
Thanks, Bry, we're elated by your words & your experience!
Videographer: @creeseworks.bsky.social
We're less than 2 weeks away from #GivingTuesday, a global celebration of radical giving!
This December 2, we ask that you help CFA reach our #Give10for10 campaign goal and help us empower a new generation of artists and leaders!
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
#CFA10Years #SupportTheArts #GivingTuesday
This December 2, we ask that you help CFA reach our #Give10for10 campaign goal and help us empower a new generation of artists and leaders!
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
#CFA10Years #SupportTheArts #GivingTuesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
We're less than 2 weeks away from #GivingTuesday, a global celebration of radical giving!
This December 2, we ask that you help CFA reach our #Give10for10 campaign goal and help us empower a new generation of artists and leaders!
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
#CFA10Years #SupportTheArts #GivingTuesday
This December 2, we ask that you help CFA reach our #Give10for10 campaign goal and help us empower a new generation of artists and leaders!
tinyurl.com/cfaimpact
#CFA10Years #SupportTheArts #GivingTuesday
“If I just fight for it, the sky is the limit.”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, on what she learned about herself playing Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, a role that earned her several awards and a Tony Award nomination.
Jasmine Amy Rogers, on what she learned about herself playing Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, a role that earned her several awards and a Tony Award nomination.
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“If I just fight for it, the sky is the limit.”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, on what she learned about herself playing Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, a role that earned her several awards and a Tony Award nomination.
Jasmine Amy Rogers, on what she learned about herself playing Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical, a role that earned her several awards and a Tony Award nomination.
Sending a very special happy birthday to you, Jacqueline Youm!
Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year full of many more amazing achievements.
Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year full of many more amazing achievements.
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Sending a very special happy birthday to you, Jacqueline Youm!
Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year full of many more amazing achievements.
Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year full of many more amazing achievements.
If you're interested in a career behind the scenes in performing arts, add this Teens Behind the Scenes interview webinar series to your must-watch list. Featuring insight & advice from directors, choreographers, costume designers and more, stream it on The National Theatre DC's YouTube channel.
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you're interested in a career behind the scenes in performing arts, add this Teens Behind the Scenes interview webinar series to your must-watch list. Featuring insight & advice from directors, choreographers, costume designers and more, stream it on The National Theatre DC's YouTube channel.
Emmy Award-winning actress Kerry Washington starred in Race, back in 2009, it was her debut on Broadway. She later starred in another Broadway production, American Son. She's been nominated twice for a Tony Award as a producer for her work on the revivals Purlie Victorious and Gypsy.
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Emmy Award-winning actress Kerry Washington starred in Race, back in 2009, it was her debut on Broadway. She later starred in another Broadway production, American Son. She's been nominated twice for a Tony Award as a producer for her work on the revivals Purlie Victorious and Gypsy.
Talk That Talk: Spades Tournament is happening Friday, Nov. 14 at Station 4!
In partnership with Arena Stage and inspired by the play, Fremont Ave., it'll be a fun night fueled by good vibes, humorous trash talk, food, competition and a grand prize.
Free to RSVP: station4dc.com/events
In partnership with Arena Stage and inspired by the play, Fremont Ave., it'll be a fun night fueled by good vibes, humorous trash talk, food, competition and a grand prize.
Free to RSVP: station4dc.com/events
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Talk That Talk: Spades Tournament is happening Friday, Nov. 14 at Station 4!
In partnership with Arena Stage and inspired by the play, Fremont Ave., it'll be a fun night fueled by good vibes, humorous trash talk, food, competition and a grand prize.
Free to RSVP: station4dc.com/events
In partnership with Arena Stage and inspired by the play, Fremont Ave., it'll be a fun night fueled by good vibes, humorous trash talk, food, competition and a grand prize.
Free to RSVP: station4dc.com/events
Here's to creative journeys and the people who nurture them in our formative years.
On Beyond the Page, our founder, Marjuan Canady shares what it was like growing up in DC with an interest in the arts and how her family supported that curiosity.
Episode is available on YouTube at WHUT-TV.
On Beyond the Page, our founder, Marjuan Canady shares what it was like growing up in DC with an interest in the arts and how her family supported that curiosity.
Episode is available on YouTube at WHUT-TV.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here's to creative journeys and the people who nurture them in our formative years.
On Beyond the Page, our founder, Marjuan Canady shares what it was like growing up in DC with an interest in the arts and how her family supported that curiosity.
Episode is available on YouTube at WHUT-TV.
On Beyond the Page, our founder, Marjuan Canady shares what it was like growing up in DC with an interest in the arts and how her family supported that curiosity.
Episode is available on YouTube at WHUT-TV.
The money question.
It's so important to have conversations like this surrounding the state of DC Black theatre with such a like-minded and growing artistic and creative community.
Videographer: CreeseWorks
It's so important to have conversations like this surrounding the state of DC Black theatre with such a like-minded and growing artistic and creative community.
Videographer: CreeseWorks
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The money question.
It's so important to have conversations like this surrounding the state of DC Black theatre with such a like-minded and growing artistic and creative community.
Videographer: CreeseWorks
It's so important to have conversations like this surrounding the state of DC Black theatre with such a like-minded and growing artistic and creative community.
Videographer: CreeseWorks
Art is more than expression, it's a form of self-care.
Daveed Diggs won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his performance in Hamilton, playing two different characters in the wildly successful Broadway play.
Daveed Diggs won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his performance in Hamilton, playing two different characters in the wildly successful Broadway play.
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Art is more than expression, it's a form of self-care.
Daveed Diggs won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his performance in Hamilton, playing two different characters in the wildly successful Broadway play.
Daveed Diggs won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his performance in Hamilton, playing two different characters in the wildly successful Broadway play.
Excited to share that CFA founder Marjuan Canady will be featured on WHUT's Beyond the Page, hosted by Keisha Nelson, premiereing today at 8.30pm!
This series will take an exquisite look at children's content creators through in-depth conversations around their journeys.
www.whut.org/
This series will take an exquisite look at children's content creators through in-depth conversations around their journeys.
www.whut.org/
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Excited to share that CFA founder Marjuan Canady will be featured on WHUT's Beyond the Page, hosted by Keisha Nelson, premiereing today at 8.30pm!
This series will take an exquisite look at children's content creators through in-depth conversations around their journeys.
www.whut.org/
This series will take an exquisite look at children's content creators through in-depth conversations around their journeys.
www.whut.org/
Happy Birthday, Hillary! We hope your day brings you so much joy and happiness!
May all your biggest dreams come true in the year ahead!
May all your biggest dreams come true in the year ahead!
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy Birthday, Hillary! We hope your day brings you so much joy and happiness!
May all your biggest dreams come true in the year ahead!
May all your biggest dreams come true in the year ahead!
An improv exercise or the makings of the Tethered from the movie 'Us'?
It's the mirror exercise employed during our recent Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop.
For improv, it encourages and sharpens active listening, focus and helps build synergy between performers.
📸: Imani Ford
It's the mirror exercise employed during our recent Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop.
For improv, it encourages and sharpens active listening, focus and helps build synergy between performers.
📸: Imani Ford
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An improv exercise or the makings of the Tethered from the movie 'Us'?
It's the mirror exercise employed during our recent Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop.
For improv, it encourages and sharpens active listening, focus and helps build synergy between performers.
📸: Imani Ford
It's the mirror exercise employed during our recent Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop.
For improv, it encourages and sharpens active listening, focus and helps build synergy between performers.
📸: Imani Ford
Art holds the power to challenge dominant narratives, ignite change and shift cultural landscapes. Theatre can hold a space for resistance and awakening.
CULTURE UNMUTED, a one-act play penned by Marjuan Canady & produced by Soka Tribe, explores gentrification and social justice.
CULTURE UNMUTED, a one-act play penned by Marjuan Canady & produced by Soka Tribe, explores gentrification and social justice.
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Art holds the power to challenge dominant narratives, ignite change and shift cultural landscapes. Theatre can hold a space for resistance and awakening.
CULTURE UNMUTED, a one-act play penned by Marjuan Canady & produced by Soka Tribe, explores gentrification and social justice.
CULTURE UNMUTED, a one-act play penned by Marjuan Canady & produced by Soka Tribe, explores gentrification and social justice.
Believing in yourself is hard sometimes but it is so necessary.
Leslie Odom, Jr.'s very first Broadway role was in Rent, when he was 17-years-old. Since then he's been nominated for a Tony Award twice, the first for Hamilton and the second for Purlie Victorious.
Leslie Odom, Jr.'s very first Broadway role was in Rent, when he was 17-years-old. Since then he's been nominated for a Tony Award twice, the first for Hamilton and the second for Purlie Victorious.
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Believing in yourself is hard sometimes but it is so necessary.
Leslie Odom, Jr.'s very first Broadway role was in Rent, when he was 17-years-old. Since then he's been nominated for a Tony Award twice, the first for Hamilton and the second for Purlie Victorious.
Leslie Odom, Jr.'s very first Broadway role was in Rent, when he was 17-years-old. Since then he's been nominated for a Tony Award twice, the first for Hamilton and the second for Purlie Victorious.
We, here at CFA, make it our life's work to dare young people of color to dream big, much like the people who surrounded Misty Copeland on her journey to becoming a much-celebrated and ground-breaking ballet dancer.
Last week, she retired from the ABT and we can't wait to see what she does next!
Last week, she retired from the ABT and we can't wait to see what she does next!
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We, here at CFA, make it our life's work to dare young people of color to dream big, much like the people who surrounded Misty Copeland on her journey to becoming a much-celebrated and ground-breaking ballet dancer.
Last week, she retired from the ABT and we can't wait to see what she does next!
Last week, she retired from the ABT and we can't wait to see what she does next!
Stretching the muscles of creativity with our CFA Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop taught by Michelle Faulkner-Forson.
Michelle is a multi-hyphenated wonder and arts administrator who has made it her life's work to spotlight the stories of Black people and niche communities.
Michelle is a multi-hyphenated wonder and arts administrator who has made it her life's work to spotlight the stories of Black people and niche communities.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Stretching the muscles of creativity with our CFA Improv Theatre Professional Development workshop taught by Michelle Faulkner-Forson.
Michelle is a multi-hyphenated wonder and arts administrator who has made it her life's work to spotlight the stories of Black people and niche communities.
Michelle is a multi-hyphenated wonder and arts administrator who has made it her life's work to spotlight the stories of Black people and niche communities.
This year's March On! Festival was a brilliant mix of film screenings and panels!
For CFA event intern Nailah Darius, it was the documentary films that she found both educational and moving, as well as meeting political analyst, the magnificent Joy-Ann Reid!
📹: CreeseWorks
For CFA event intern Nailah Darius, it was the documentary films that she found both educational and moving, as well as meeting political analyst, the magnificent Joy-Ann Reid!
📹: CreeseWorks
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This year's March On! Festival was a brilliant mix of film screenings and panels!
For CFA event intern Nailah Darius, it was the documentary films that she found both educational and moving, as well as meeting political analyst, the magnificent Joy-Ann Reid!
📹: CreeseWorks
For CFA event intern Nailah Darius, it was the documentary films that she found both educational and moving, as well as meeting political analyst, the magnificent Joy-Ann Reid!
📹: CreeseWorks
This summer, Lupita Nyong'o starred in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park.
She's an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and Daytime Emmy Award winner. When it comes to theatre, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for her performance in the Broadway play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira.
She's an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and Daytime Emmy Award winner. When it comes to theatre, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for her performance in the Broadway play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira.
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This summer, Lupita Nyong'o starred in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park.
She's an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and Daytime Emmy Award winner. When it comes to theatre, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for her performance in the Broadway play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira.
She's an Oscar, Screen Actors Guild and Daytime Emmy Award winner. When it comes to theatre, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for her performance in the Broadway play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira.