HOUSTON, TX-- Shabach Enterprise's groundbreaking play festival, Fade To Black, returns for its 6th season of short plays. Fade To Black is Houston's first and only play festival to showcase the new works of African-American playwrights!

Designed as an initiative to address the need for relevant promotion of African-American playwrights and their new works, this three-day festival selects ten of the nation’s top African-American playwrights and performs their plays before a live audience. Cast with some of Houston’s most talented local artists and directors, we have successfully created a multi-cultural theatre event that gives voice to a society of playwrights whose level of recognition has been denied for far too long.

Fade to Black was created by S. Denise O'Neal, a published Houston playwright who is the festival's executive director. "After seeing so few African-American playwrights represented in theater festivals in the Houston community," she said, "I decided it was time for a change."

2018 Fade To Black Play Festival Winners:

Calley Anderson (New York, NY), Trick or Treat? Director: Zack Varela

*Yunina Barbour-Payne (Houston, TX), Tobacco Fields Director: Roshunda Jones

*Maya Critchlow (Houston, TX), What About Tomorrow? Director: Dabrina Sandifer

Vincent Terrell Durham (Van Nuys, CA), Home For The Holidays With The Lord Director: Dana Joseph

Peter Fields (Kent, OH), The Visit Director: Kayla Boffone

Ken Green (Boston, MA), The Campaign Director: Steward Savage

*Lionell A. Hilliard (Houston, TX), Is Orange the New Black? Director: Curtis Von

*Eric C. Jones (Houston, TX), War Letters Director: Alric Davis

TJ Young (Pittsburg, PA), Before The Fire Director: Errol Anthony Wilks

Brandon Riley (Tempe, AZ), Easy As Pie Director: Richard Jeffery

Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH), Matchbox 4

3400 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

(713) 325-5370

All shows perform at 8 pm

Thursday-Saturday, June 21-23, 2018*

*A playwright talk-back is set for Friday, June 22, 2018, at 10:30 pm.

For Tickets: https://matchouston.org/events/2018/6th-annual-fade-black-play-festival#event-instances