Keith Hamilton Cobb | The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Full Keynote 2023 | Bates College
Monday, Jan. 16 | 9–10:30am
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Keynote
00:00 -- Students’ Welcome | Sam Jean-Francois ’23
2:34 -- President’s Welcome and Overview | A. Clayton Spencer, President of Bates College
9:48 -- Introduction of Keynote Speaker | Tyler Harper, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
13:38 -- Keynote | Keith Hamilton Cobb
50:55 -- Closing | James Reese, Associate Dean for International Student Programs
Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor and playwright who has appeared in classical and contemporary roles on stages across the country, and is recognized for unique character portrayals he has created for television. His award-winning play, American Moor, which explores the perspective of the African American male through the metaphor of Shakespeare’s Othello, ran off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre in autumn 2019. It received an Elliot Norton Award, an AUDELCO Award, two IRNE Awards, and is part of the permanent collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Cobb is the director of the Untitled Othello Project, an extended interrogation and rehearsal of Othello with artists and educators, disrupting antiquated ideas of the play’s purpose and value, and exploring the human struggles with race, religion, sexuality, and other issues that it activates whenever it is performed. The project is a collaboration with Blessed Unrest Theatre and the Midnight Oil Collective and is in residence at Sacred Heart University. Cobb is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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