Stogie Kenyatta to Return to Santa Monica Playhouse with 'THE WORLD IS MY HOME'

Actor/playwright Stogie Kenyatta returns to Santa Monica Playhouse Saturday, June 25th with his acclaimed one man show about the life of Actor/Activist Paul Robeson.

For the past 14 years - from its first performance at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis - Kenyatta has been performing his acclaimed NAACP award-winning show, The World Is My Home - The Life of Paul Robeson around the country, becoming the number one touring one man show in the United States, the Caribbean and Central America. It is the most requested multi- cultural educational show on the American and Caribbean Educational Circuit and the favorite on the topics of diversity, compassion, African pride, social justice and the music of the Harlem Renaissance.

Kenyatta says that The World Is My Home is the most challenging performance of his career and the work of which he is most proud. It's a "Turn-of-the-Century Love Story" about the triumphs and tragedy of this African American Activist and Entertainer, Paul Robeson, told with music, comedy, passion and heartfelt emotion that covers everything from his close friendship with Albert Einstein, his affection for the Jewish people, the Holocaust, Jim Crow Laws, the Harlem Renaissance with music from Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Louie Armstrong, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Harry Belafonte & Robeson himself, and, his complex 44 year marriage to Eslanda and America's amazing, yet painful history.

Classically trained at the Afro American Studio in Harlem, the Henry St. Settlement and Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble, Jamaican born and Brooklyn bred Stogie Kenyatta was a finalist in the New York State Theatre competition with Artistic Director, John Houseman, then came west for college where he studied screenwriting and political science at the University of California and later privately with Ivan Markota at the Van Mar Academy for Television & Film acting. His TV credits cover everything from sitcoms and film to soap operas, from Bernie Mac and Jake and the Fat Man to HBO's Tyson (Co-star) to The Bold and The Beautiful. As a stand-up comedian, he has performed at Comedy Clubs around the country, on the Gulf of Mexico, the south of France, and London, several Caribbean Islands and co-headlined a USO comedy tour in Tokyo, and Okinawa. As a writer he has written seven screenplays, several of which have been optioned. The best known is his one man show; The World Is My Home - The Life of Paul Robeson. When not on tour, he can be found performing the show for Los Angeles audiences at his home theatre, the Internationally-acclaimed Santa Monica Playhouse. Visit stogiekenyatta.com for more.

Tickets for the June 25th 7:00pm performance are $25. Purchase them on line at SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com or call 310-394-9779 x1

Santa Monica Playhouse is at 1211 4th Street in the heart of downtown Santa Monica and is accessible by all major bus lines and the metro expo line. There is convenient parking directly across the street in city lot #1.

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