Alle Mims
Alle Mims (they/them) is a Black, biracial genderfluid artist living in NYC. They are a cultural archeologist and political satirist who writes about Black, Queer, and Radical History.
Mims earned their BA in Drama from Texas Woman’s University (’16) and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University (’23) under the instruction of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. While at Columbia, they also studied early 20th-century Black Radical history.
Mims was recently a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group (‘23/24) and was a semifinalist for the O’Neil, as well as the Frank Moffet Fellowship in Elevated Language (’24). Mims was a finalist for the Van Lier New Voices Fellowship and Ars Nova’s Play Group (’23) and a semifinalist for Alter Theatre’s Decolonization Stories and Queercat Production’s Black Trans Artist Offering (’22). Mims’ full-length audio drama, Pink, was a finalist for the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading (’21).
Mims currently works as a researcher for the August Wilson Society. They have been commissioned by theGrio (Harlem and Moscow, audio drama), Bishop Arts Theatre (The How To Be Antiracist Project), and Imprint Theatreworks (The Tree: An American Musical).
During their time in residence, Alle will continue the development of A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America.
About A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America
A Soviet Film on Negro Life in America is a political satire that uses masks and puppets to tell the unbelievably true story of the Soviet Film that almost changed the world. In 1932, Langston Hughes, Louise Thompson Patterson, and twenty other Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals traveled to Moscow to make a Communist propaganda film sponsored by the Soviet Government. Langston and Louise lead their comrades to the other side of the world with the promise of stardom, revolution, and a guaranteed good time on the Soviet's dime; hopeful that their voyage will mean change back home within their lifetime.
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Collaborators
Image courtesy of Wes Andre Goodrich
Wes Andre Goodrich
Director
Wes Andre Goodrich (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based writer / director. He has been on the festival circuit with two shorts: SPEAK UP BROTHA! and PALM SUNDAY. He recently directed the short film MEAL TICKET for Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Fellowship, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. Wes was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the 2023 New Faces of Film.
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Alexis Williams
Dramaturg
Alexis Williams is a dramaturg, playwright, and devout Southerner. She currently centers her ever-developing dramaturgical practice on groundedness and the uncomplicated nucleus of storytelling. As a playwright, she is interested in the space where black womanhood, folklore, and the surreal intersect. When she grows up, she hopes to be like Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Adrienne Kennedy, Marita Bonner, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Aleshea Harris.