Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

Jacqueline Youm, JaYo Théâtre: establishing a pathway to closer connection and inclusion by Gregory J. Ford

Jacqueline Youm, founder of one of DC's newest companies, JaYo Théâtre, is from Senegal, the daughter of an International Monetary Fund economist. Watch below as this talented performer, in her striking monologue "Beautiful Burden/Je Suis Noire/I am Black," describes her shock in first encountering the daily, brutally lived American form of theater of the absurd […]

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PM on July 31, 2020

« Back to BroadwayStars