Electronic and Print Media
Throughout my career, my work has been acknowledged in public media both as a representative of arts organizations and as an individual artist and thinker. Here are some media selections from various projects and initiatives.
Review: Crowns
"Direction by Thembi Duncan has delivered a show which never flags and in which each person 's individuality shines through." -Anthony Chase
Roundtable: For BIPOC Women
"We hand that power over because it was ripped from us so many times...and we have been socialized to give it at will. It's really powerful when we say, 'No.'" -Thembi Duncan
Review: Crowns
"Thembi Duncan squeezes the most juice out of every scene. And every actor. If the audience wasn’t shouting or clapping they were laughing." -Peter Hall
Flash: Girls Run the World
"What's most important to us is these girls walk away knowing they have a support system," said Thembi Duncan, director of arts engagement and education at Shea's Performing Arts Center.
Feature: Body Language
"Duncan's workshop helps officers better understand that they are members of the same society they police." -Ret. Capt. Stephen Nichols
Review: Yellowman
"Thembi Duncan really got this play. She just got it, everything about it. And she cast it and shaped it with enormous empathy and purpose." -John Stoltenberg
Review: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
"[Alex] McArthur has calibrated her creation under the deft direction of Thembi Duncan, who gives the actor enough latitude to create a woman who is tragically vulnerable but not pathetic." -Anthony Chase
Radio: Colorism in Yellowman
The Kojo Nnamdi Show welcomes the cast and director of Yellowman.
Review: WTF Happened to Baby Sister?!!
"Thembi Duncan takes the source material and creatively re-invigorates it with layers of theatrical complexity and originality." -David Friscic
Review: Disgraced
"With Duncan's invigorating, subversive touch, Disgraced aims directly for the brain of those of us who consider ourselves...above it all." -David Siegel
Blog: Women Playwrights of DC
"I consider myself a playwright who writes for actors. I write characters that I want actors to be excited about inhabiting."
-Thembi Duncan
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