Frankie Faison and Chad Coleman to premiere new article by Jelani Cobb about fatherhood!
Join our live studio audience on June 12, in person or on Zoom!
In honor of Father’s Day, please join us for the sixth installment of Theater of War Productions’ new long-form journalism series at WNYC on June 12 at 7pm EDT. The acclaimed actors Frankie Faison (The Wire, Coming to America, The Rookie) and Chad Coleman (The Wire, The Walking Dead, Superman & Lois) will premiere “The Old Man,” a new article written by Jelani Cobb for The New Yorker, as a catalyst for a guided, intergenerational audience discussion about fatherhood. The event will be recorded with a live studio audience and broadcast on the radio Father’s Day weekend.
Jelani Cobb has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. He is the author of books including “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He is an editor, with David Remnick, of “The Matter of Black Lives,” an anthology of New Yorker writing on race in America. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice. He is the dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
Here are a few personal photos of Jelani Cobb’s parents and of him as a baby!
Co-Presented by Theater of War Productions and WNYC, with special thanks to The New Yorker.
Supported by a generous grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Directed and facilitated by Bryan Doerries.
This free, public, hybrid event will take place for a live studio audience, in person at WNYC and on Zoom. In-person registration does not guarantee you a seat. Please arrive by 6:30pm. If you choose to join us online, this event can be accessed on personal devices. The event Zoom link will be distributed via email and available to registered attendees starting two days prior to the event. This event will be captioned in English on Zoom. If you join the conversation, you may be included in the future radio program.