Drama Department Members Contribute to Annual MLK Recommitment Banquet
Clinnesha Sibley
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Clinnesha D. Sibley, playwright, director and educator, will bring a different kind of keynote address to the 18th annual Recommitment Banquet, hosted by the Northwest Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Council. Sibley will direct her original one-act play, Bound by Blood, featuring University of Arkansas student actors Britney Walker-Merritte and Brandyn Smith.
The play is part of Sibley’s trilogy King Me: Three One Act Plays Inspired by the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The play is set in the South, with characters and themes that dramatize one of King’s best known quotes.
Sibley is assistant professor of drama in the J. William
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. Walker-Merritte is a first-year M.F.A.
acting candidate and Smith is a second-year M.F.A. directing candidate, both in
the drama department.
The Recommitment Banquet will be held at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan. 20, in the Fayetteville Town Center, on the south side of the Fayetteville Square. Ticket information is available at 479-575-4825 or at www.nwamlk.org/mlk-banquet/tickets.
The Northwest Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Council strives to promote awareness, education, and unity throughout the Northwest Arkansas community.
Contacts
Clinnesha Sibley, assistant professor
Drama department
479-575-6074,
sibley@uark.edu
Steve Voorhies, manager of media relations
University Relations
479-575-3583,
voorhies@uark.edu
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