Upcoming Projects

Fall-Winter 2007

The Ritual
Zeno Constance

(in collaboration with New Perspective Theatre Company)

Readings

February 2008

Fix Up
Kwame Kwei-Armah

March 2008

Pretty Paper
Merlina Rich

Fall 2006 Productions

Fix Up
Kwame Kwei-Armah

Mamma Decemba by Nigel
Moffatt

Fall 2005 Readings

Part 1
The British-Caribbean Experience


Fix Up
Kwame Kwei-Armah

October 14, 2005

Leaving Taking
Winsome Pinnock
October 28, 2005

Part 2
Self-Reflection


All I've Got
Rob Santana
November 18, 2005

The Orange Cuba Sun
H.N.Cable
December 02, 2005

plus Christmas Spirit Event with kareoke

Coming in 2006 -

British-Caribbean Readings and Productions



Reading Series of Short Plays
(August 2005)

Showcase Production of
Mamma Decemba by Nigel
Moffatt
(November 2005)

Project Find - Coffee House
Senior Citizen Reading, Short Play
(September 2005)

Past Projects



Annual Mid-Winter
Shake-n-Bake
Co-produced with Crucuial Arts Productions
(Friday, February 25, 2005)

Christmas Spirit Party
(December 11, 2004)

Jestina's Calypso
by Earl Lovelace
(February 2004)
(Re-staging of May 2003 BBP production)

My Children! My Africa!
by Athol Fugard
co- produced with CART

May 27, 28, 29, 2005,- June 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9,10,11,& 12 2005

Mamma Decemba
by Nigel D. Moffatt
(June 2005)

All I've Got
by Rob Santana
(October 2005)

PAST PRODUCTIONS

An Evening of Island Spice
One Act Plays from the Caribbean (1998)

Have Mouth, Will Travel
by Merlina Rich
(1997)

Pretty Papers
by Merlina Rich
(1997)

READINGS

Nine to Five Government Workers Style, Part II
by Emelda Sandra Edwards
(December 2002)

A Bag of Rice & Cod Liver Oil
by Thomas Osha Pinnock 
(August 2001)
Mamma Decemba
by Nigel D. Moffat
(June 2001)
Good Morning Miss Millie
by Alwin Bully
(March 2001)
An Elegance of Cannibals
by Robert Lesser
(2000)
The Command Meant For Nothing
by Tiffany Osedra Miller
(1999)

Audelco Award nominees for My Children! My Africa! (from left: Rudolph Shaw, Edwin Briscoe, Corrie Beula

Click here for more photos and highlights from events of the past year in the Banana Boat Productions Scrapbook.

About Banana Boat Productions



Banana Boat Productions, a not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1996 by Merlina Rich, is dedicated to presenting quality Caribbean theater to the New York City Caribbean and non-Caribbean community. Our premise is simply this:  The Caribbean culture is a multicolored and rich palette of expressions, experiences, and lifestyles that has not been exposed enough in the realm of truly meaningful theater. 

Banana Boat Productions hopes to bring more thoughtful Caribbean theater to a larger audience, an audience that, through our readings and full staged productions, will be able to more easily recognize and appreciate both the complexities and the simple elegance of the struggles and the resolutions, the humor and the sadness, but most of all, the indomitable spirit of Caribbean life. Please contact us if you would like to contribute to or participate in this endeavor.

Merlina Rich 
Founder and Executive Director
Banana Boat Productions
340 W. 57th Street, Suite 4-I
New York, New York 10019
(212) 586-8767

e-mail:Banana Boat Productions

See Photos from Previous 
Events on 
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Scenes from AUDELCO Nominated

My Children! My Africa!

Scenes from Jestina's Calyspso

Fall 2005 Reading Series

Caribbean Resources 
on the Web


Research Institute for the Study of Man

CaribSeek Kaleidoscope

Reichhold Caribbean 
Repertory Theatre

Caribbean Community Theatre

Caribbean Lycos

Caribbean Daily

Caribbean Women Writers

Virtual Institute of 
Caribbean Studies

Library of Congress -
Caribbean Region

University of 
West Indies Press

Caribbean Literature

Caribbean Maps

Caribbean Community

Association of 
Caribbean States

CaribSeek

Caribbean Literature

 

Member
Alliance for Caribbean Theater
Alliance for Resident Theaters
Banana Boat Productions

Board of Directors

Merlina Rich
Jennifer J. Joseph
Kimberly Ellis
Judith Tinker
Jerry  Bowles

Advisory Board

Yasuko Ito
Melody Brooks
Suzanne Bowles