18th Annual Fire This Time Festival

The Apollo is proud to serve as the home for Season 18 of Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival. Founded in 2009 by playwright and Apollo's Director of New Works, Kelley Nicole Girod, The Fire This Time Festival provides a platform for early career playwrights of African and African American descent. Since the debut of the first 10-minute play program, presented in collaboration with FRIGID New York, The Fire This Time Festival has produced and developed the work of more than 90 Black playwrights including Katori Hall, Dominique Morisseau, Jordan E. Cooper, Radha Blank, Antoinette Nwandu, Kevin R. Free, Jocelyn Bioh, Marcus Gardley, korde arrington tuttle, Stacey Rose, Aziza Barnes, C.A. Johnson, Kevin R. Free, Charly Evon Simpson, Angelica Cheri, James Anthony Tyler, Nathan Yungerberg, York Walker, Nia Akilah Robinson, Cris Eli Blak, Ngozi Anyanwu and more.