Jedidiah Blackstone: Traveling Poet & Storyteller
A profound narrative of self-exploration and cultural enlightenment. Jedidiah Blackstone, is a cowboy poet with a spirit as vast as the western skies. His odyssey navigates through the veiled narratives that confront the fabled myths of the frontier, charting a course toward personal redemption.
This captivating tale weaves together a tapestry of redemption, the poignant hues of nostalgia, and a quest to mend the bonds with his late father. Through the lens of history and culture, we follow Jedidiah on his transformative journey to carve out his legacy, beyond the shadows of the past.
This story is dedicated to the Black cowboy storytellers who came before. To our ancestors like Paul Stewart, who spent his life collecting and preserving our history with the Black American West Museum. To Lu Vason, who founded the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, making sure Black cowboys were seen and celebrated.
The Master storyteller Opalonga Pugh, the legendary thespian Jeffrey Nickleson, the legendary playwright Ken Grimes, Educator and historian Grace Stiles, founder of the Stiles African American Heritage Center, to the master writer, teacher, Dr. Vincent Harding, and to our elders; master historian Terri Gentry, and master historian Daphne H. Rice Allen, to the master storyteller the great Donnie L. Betts, to the master storyteller Hugo Sayles, to master teacher Brother Jeff Fard, to master educator and author Paul Hamilton, to veteran, elder and and historian Sid Wilson, and to the next generation, poet, playwright, director, Kenya Mahogany Fashaw, historian Acoma Gaither, and to countless other storytellers unmentioned, this is for them. And this is for us.
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Emancipation Theater productions:
2013 WKJJ
2018 Honorable Disorder
2020 Recipe
2020 I Am Raverro
2021 Message to the Mayor
2023 In the Pocket: The Ballad of Bobby Trombone
2025 Jedidiah Blackstone: Traveling Poet & Storyteller
2025 Inagural Season