Tag: Krystina Bailey

  • JULY 17TH RESET WEEK 3 FREE PERFORMANCES KRYSTINA BAILEY IN “THE GOOD COP”

    Friday, July 17th be sure to check out  Pitch and The Good Cop.  The Good Cop. Written by Christin Eve Cato @lady_cato87 and Directed by Nigel Semaj @nigelsemaj

    Starring Krystina Bailey @krystinashanel & Tanya Perez @tanyaperezrulez
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    ABOUT KRYSTINA

    Krystina Bailey is an actress, writer, director, producer and 2011 graduate of Manhattanville College where she double majored in theatre and education. She is currently on Jordan Peele’s “Weird City” on YouTube Premium as well as on “Blue Bloods” on CBS. Upon graduation she was cast in a stage reading at the Samuel Beckett Theater on 42nd Street with Manhattan Classic Company’s Outreach Program. She then went on to perform in four Off-Off Broadway Productions, one of which allowed her to become a member of The Hudson Theater Ensemble in Hoboken, New Jersey. She has been featured in 6 independent films, one of which she co-produced that won an accolade for “Best Web Length Video”, and won a “Special Mention” award for the “One Reeler Web Festival”. In 2012 Krystina became one of The Flea Theater’s resident actors known as “The Bats” and 2017 wrote her first play titled “Showtime” to which she was nominated for “Best Playwright for a Short Subject”. Krystina now resides in Los Angeles, California where she does majority of her film and TV work and is the director and producer of “Two Singles” the web series on the ON! Channel. 

    At Conch Shell Productions (CSP), our mission is to infuse a new Caribbean-American and Caribbean Diaspora voices into the American theater and film industry.  To do so, we create a space to develop, workshop, and produce new plays and screenplays.

    We believe that art can and should provoke social change. Our productions create an opportunity for diverse audiences to explore and celebrate the unique ethnic/cultural diversity of the 28 multi-lingual Caribbean cultures that have immigrated to other nations seeking new opportunities. 

    Our seasons include both readings and full productions of new works.  Our presentations include Hear Her Call Caribbean-American Women’s Theater Festival, Conch Shell New Works Series, #BluelightSeries (a virtual reading series), as well as fully produced full length works, as well as collaborative endeavors (Reset Theater Coalition).

    Conch Shell Productions is a Queens, New York-based, fiscally sponsored organization, and a member of  the Alliance of Residence Theatres/NY.  

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER

    Black Lives Matter
    By Krystina Bailey 6/6/2020

    Photo: Airic Lewis
    www.nirvanastudioshwood.com

    “Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! What do we want? Justice! When we want it? Now! Say his name! George Floyd!” What started as a peaceful protest in LA has turned into a rippling movement for change. Los Angeles, along with every other state in this country is fighting for an end to police brutality.

    Photo: Airic Lewis
    www.nirvanastudioshwood.com

    This country was built on the enslavement of Black people. Even though civil rights rules were enacted, and Jim Crow laws went out the window, doesn’t mean that racism has ended. What is racism? How did it come about? Why do White people get treated better than Black people? These are the questions that have continued to circulate for years. Can a country that was built on racism ever fully become one that is free of it? People in Los Angeles are doing their best to find out.

    Photo: Airic Lewis
    www.nirvanastudioshwood.com

    Dr. Martin Luther King showed people of different races how to come together and march for change. This is exactly what’s going on in the streets of LA. Picture this, it’s 2020 and Covid-19 has swarmed the nation with it’s highly contagious, deathly uncertainty. People have been cooped up inside their houses for weeks. Everyone, of course, is on social media, and the world witnesses the kneeled police brutality death of Minneapolis native George Floyd. Yet, just weeks ago they witnessed the shooting and killing of Ahmaud Aubrey who was out for a jog in his home state of Georgia. Only to then see a bird watcher in Central Park, get the police called on him by a White woman with a double meaning to her words. Not sure if this could have been a more perfect time to get the world’s attention.

    Photo: Airic Lewis
    www.nirvanastudioshwood.com

    “No Justice! No peace!” is what the signs say and it’s been ringing true nationwide. Are things ever going to “get back to normal” or are people going to rally until there is a change? All of the rallies, protests, and even turned riots don’t seem like they aren’t going to stop anytime soon. It seems as though people are sick and tired of the way minorities, specifically Black people, are being treated. If it takes a White woman to come out and say, “Cops don’t accidentally kill White women like me” there’s a point to be made here. It sort of seems like there’s an invisible code that police officers take under oath; Treat black men differently. People have had it, and enough is enough.

    Photo: Airic Lewis
    www.nirvanastudioshwood.com

    It seems to be a younger crowd protesting. Millennials and Gen Z are talking to the streets. These will be the future leaders of this country. So does that mean racism will finally end? Some people have taken matters into their own hands and have started looting and destroying property. Folks are angry that nothing is being done to end police brutality. This is America and its 2020. Even a pandemic couldn’t stop people from coming together with some rioting in the streets for justice.

    Maybe the millennials and Gen Z got it! They figured out how to end racism; Do it like Dr. King. This movement will bring about change. It already seems to have started. Things will never be the same. There is a “new normal” and it’s not going down without a fight!

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