Amara Brady

Amara Brady

Amara (She/Her/Hers) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg from Chicago. Her purpose is to show the humanity and divinity of Black women and connect underserved communities with experiences that mirror their own. Favorite Credits: “my dick is david duke” or The Sad Fat Negress Can’t Get a Date (Ars Nova- Star; Writer; Producer), This is Where We Go (MCC- Actor + Writer), NYT’s Critic Pick, Jillian...
Amara (She/Her/Hers) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg from Chicago. Her purpose is to show the humanity and divinity of Black women and connect underserved communities with experiences that mirror their own. Favorite Credits: “my dick is david duke” or The Sad Fat Negress Can’t Get a Date (Ars Nova- Star; Writer; Producer), This is Where We Go (MCC- Actor + Writer), NYT’s Critic Pick, Jillian Walker’s SKiNFoLK (Bushwick Starr- Assistant Producer). YouTube series, ‘Skinny & White’ Aren’t Character Traits. Resist, check your privilege, & then make some space. Ashé to the ancestors. All Power to all people.
Website:https://linktr.ee/ajbrady

Plays

  • Angie 4.0 by Amara Brady
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: Black women, grotesque
    Genre: dark comedy, horror, political
    Keyword: Black women, grotesque
    Tells the story of the lone Black women at a dinner table with people she considered friends. Each time she tries to assert her boundaries she is shut down and loses a piece of herself each time coming back more and more inhuman. And what happens when the inhumanity is in the driver's seat of your existence?
  • Ibinuje (grief) by Amara Brady
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: black womanhood, black death + 1 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: black womanhood, black death, lynching
    Inspired by real accounts of the mass migrations of Black folk from the South to the North and beyond. Ibinuje, tells the story of Lula, a woman dealing with the lynching of her husband as the city tries to bribe her to move out. While trying to navigate what to do she is guided by a physical manifestation of death/grief and her dearly departed husband.
  • Last Ones First by Amara Brady
    Cast: 
    4–7
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    Genre: fantasy, immersive + 1 more
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    Keyword: virtual reality, Black femmes + 3 more
    Genre: fantasy, immersive, tragedy
    Keyword: virtual reality, Black femmes, Black women, goddess, water
    While trying to create a new fish O and Maya are startled to discover one of their goddess siblings, Win, has been hurt. They appeal to the kindness of the audience to see if anyone is willing to sacrifice themselves to save Win. When no action is taken the audience is confronted with their own complicity.
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girls Aren't Black by Amara Brady
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: romantic comedy
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    Keyword: Black women, manic pixie dream girl
    Genre: romantic comedy
    Keyword: Black women, manic pixie dream girl
    From Maria Reiner in The Sound of Music to Ramona in Scott Pilgrim v.s. The World. Manic Pixie Dream Girls have always been apart of our cultural zeitgeist, but they’re never really Black even in this alternate universe until Delilah gets a soul reading of a Tier A Manic Pixie Dream Girl. While she lives most of her life in obscurity she is eventually able to get into one of the top training programs for Manic...
    From Maria Reiner in The Sound of Music to Ramona in Scott Pilgrim v.s. The World. Manic Pixie Dream Girls have always been apart of our cultural zeitgeist, but they’re never really Black even in this alternate universe until Delilah gets a soul reading of a Tier A Manic Pixie Dream Girl. While she lives most of her life in obscurity she is eventually able to get into one of the top training programs for Manic Pixies. While there she meets and falls for Circa, but begins to wonder if this life is all it’s cracked up to be.
  • When We Were gods by Amara Brady
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Black women, American drama as a Greek tragedy + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: Black women, American drama as a Greek tragedy, reclaiming greek myths, Women - Greek Myth - Adaptation
    Inspired by a wooden carving and a nefarious poem about how Black women were not as beautiful, but for some “inexplicable reason” really enticing, When We Were gods tells the story of the Sable Venus’ search for purpose and levity at the precipice of a massive shift in power on Olympus. Where were these gods during slavery and what do they owe to the humanity the sought to create? And also how the hell do we dethrone Zeus?
  • the beautiful things are gonna kill you by Amara Brady
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: experimental, melodrama
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    Keyword: black LGBTQIA, interracial couple + 1 more
    Genre: experimental, melodrama
    Keyword: black LGBTQIA, interracial couple, interracial gay couple
    the beautiful things are gonna kill you, chronicles the relationship of Ela and O starting with their first meeting in college and chronicles some of the sweetest moments in their relationship while also shedding light on the moments that tear them apart. The moments that we rarely see where love and race intersect. With a non-linear structure we see the reality of where race matters and the dreams where it can...
    the beautiful things are gonna kill you, chronicles the relationship of Ela and O starting with their first meeting in college and chronicles some of the sweetest moments in their relationship while also shedding light on the moments that tear them apart. The moments that we rarely see where love and race intersect. With a non-linear structure we see the reality of where race matters and the dreams where it can’t tear two lovers apart. How does race affect your relationship when identity is a commodity and everything has a price tag on it?
  • This Is Where We Go (Episodes 5 & 6) by Amara Brady
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Octavia Butler, space + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fantasy, radio drama, science fiction
    Keyword: Octavia Butler, space, sci-fi, Voodoo, apocalypse
    EPISODE 5: The World We Knew
    In the year 1793, the priestess Andula receives visions of a terrible future. Who are the people in her visions? Can the sun be saved? And most importantly, what does any of this have to do with Andula?

    EPISODE 6: Itele
    Questions abound as the fates of Andula, Amelia Rose, Illi and Izta intertwine. When the end is not the end, four strangers have to ask themselves: Where will we go?