Our organization is committed to supporting education by providing scholarships, mentorship, and resources to students from all backgrounds. We believe that education is the key to creating a brighter future. Through our partnerships we work to ensure that every student can have access to our world class instructors. Your donation can help fund scholarships for students in need of opportunities to learn and advance themselves. Join us in our mission to make education accessible to all!
Your donation can make a difference in the lives of students in need. Help us support education and create opportunities.
The map to a new world is written by collective imagination. Writer and Producer Kristiana Rae Colón guides this intimate cohort in visioning alternate futures through storytelling and infusing characters with empathy and heart. Join us on a journey that includes generative writing prompts to start or continue a new play, mindful creativity to nurture your inner artist, and individualized feedback on your works in progress.
Our new play readings and moderated critique sessions
are live on Zoom. To see past
readings go to the official
FSWW Youtube channel.
At Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Inc., we strive to empower writers from diverse backgrounds. Our mission is to provide a supportive environment that nurtures creativity and fosters artistic expression.
All readings in 2023-2025 are a part of our ongoing 50th anniversary celebration.
From 2016 to 2025, FSWW was in residence at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, home to the largest Afro-American community in the United States. We're grateful for their partnership and continued friendship. As a fellow arts organization, we applaud and support the BHT as a premier institute and hub for the arts, and a central anchor for the Bed-Stuy community.
Frank Alvin Silvera was a Jamaican-born American character actor and theatrical director. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Boston during the 1930s and '40s, he worked in numerous stage productions on and off-Broadway, and radio shows. Making his film debut in 1952, he founded the THEATRE OF BEING, a company for Black actors, in 1965. Our thanks to award-winning director and producer Neema Barnette and BLACK HISTORY MINI DOCS
for this wonderful portrait of Frank.
We are an arts organization dedicated to developing and supporting both new and experienced playwrights who tell stories
of the Afro-American diaspora
and other traditionally marginalized communities.
To continue providing artistic,
developmental support for playwrights
rooted in the Afro-American diaspora,
and artists who are shaping the theater
of the 21st century and beyond.
Billie Allen Henderson, Clayton Riley, Garland Lee Thompson, and Morgan Freeman founded our Audelco, and Obie Award-winning nonprofit in 1973 in the crucible of the American Black Arts Movement.
Thank you so much! Your donations help us to continue supporting playwrights, actors, and directors telling much-needed stories starting, but not ending, with the Afro-American Diaspora.
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