Actor Electronic Press Kit

theatrical

by Meshaun Labrone Issue 1 | 2019

WRITER. ACTOR. CHANGE AGENT.

What the critics have said about Meshaun Labrone “Meshaun Labrone’s Spook is emotionally scalding, politically

[Labrone] controls the room whenever Sterling is in the diner,

scathing, and ethically scorching. It is one of the most significant

mixing hilarity and drama in his movements. Talkin Broadway,

revolutionary acts of theater ever to come out of Fringe.”

Review as Sterling in Two Trains Run-ins

”As a performer, Labrone is a gale-force presence, raging and

“Meshaun Labrone is brilliant in his necessarily uncomfortable por-

brooding...”

trayal of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s less celebrated heroes.”

8/18/16, Theatre is Easy “POWER!” STOKELY CARMICHAEL

THEATRICAL by Meshaun Labrone

meshaun labrone

is the writer/performer of the oneman show, POWER! STOKELY CARMICHAEL, which had a successful award-winning run in 2015-2017. On September 23, 2017 and March 10, 2018, POWER! STOKELY CARMICHAEL played the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Mr. Labrone received international recognition for his critically acclaimed one-man show, Right to Remain...Tupac Shakur, which he performed at the Tara Theatre, Off-West End in London.

Labrone was a repertory member of the Miami Theatre Center and has been in such plays as Two Trains Running (M Ensemble), Body and Sold (The Kennedy Center), and The Tin Soldier, under the direction of former Moscow Art Theatre director Slava Dolgochev. He has also performed in film and television.

Labrone earned his BFA in Theatre from Florida International University in Miami in 2005, and a TEFL certificate in Prague, Czech Republic in 2006. Labrone has spent 11 years as a Corrections Officer for the State of Florida, Special Deputy U.S. Marshal, and a Washington, D.C. Police Officer.

meet the actor

www.spookplay.com | 786.281.7020 | meshaunlabrone@gmail.com

“Labrone is a tremendously gifted physical performer who

“The set: one prison cot, one trunk. That is all Labrone needs.

embodies something like half a dozen different characters

With charisma, fine acting, and a mesmerizing script, Labrone

with energy and specificity, all helping to turn Carmichael’s

holds the audience in his grip.” 7/14/12, DC Metro, Review

philosophies into flesh.”

of Right to Remain...Tupac Shakur

THEATRICAL by Meshaun Labrone

THEATRICAL by Meshaun Labrone

“...justice wasn’t enough.

I wanted a body!”

WRitten, directed & perfomed

by Meshaun Labrone One hour before his execution, ex-police officer-turned-active shooter Daryl “Spook” Spokane will give a live televised interview from Death Row. Convicted of murdering five of his fellow officers during the Morning Roll Call Massacre, Spokane will reveal why he committed such a heinous act. This will be the first time Spokane has uttered a single word in the three years since the mass shooting.

THEATRICAL by Meshaun Labrone

WRitten, produced & perfomed

by Meshaun Labrone

directed

by Jennifer Knight

Martin was King.

Malcolm was Militant.

Stokely was “POWER!” Prompted by the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and inspired by his time working as a corrections officer at a Florida maximum security prison, Meshaun Labrone wrote “POWER!” Stokely Carmichael.

The play takes an absurdist journey into the mind of revolutionary Stokely Carmichael. On June 23,1966, Carmichael prepared to engage in a stand off with state police during the March Against Fear in Canton, Mississippi, where he continued to expound on Black Power.

“POWER!”

THEATRICAL by Meshaun Labrone

STOKELY CARMICHAEL

Right To Remain...

Tupac Shakur

WRitten, produced & perfomed

by Meshaun Labrone

The audience encounters Shakur’s love for Shakespeare and Melville, and traces his early days when he studied ballet before he found his life absorbed by poetry and music. And for the greater part of his life he lived in a covert fear that he was not doing enough for the people in his community. Only through a deeper understanding of Shakur’s message can the world celebrate the impact and value of his art and this is exactly what this production sets out to address.