A struggling black actress who has recently accepted a teaching job at a quiet New England college desperately attempts to balance her longstanding status as a creative artist with her current role as a college professor when she is ordered to direct a stage production of Shakespeare's Othello for the sake of "diversifying the curriculum" in independent filmmaker Vaun Monroe thought-provoking look at the life of the contemporary actor. As the stress of assembling a production in which the actors share no chemistry and the inherent irony of teaching creativity at a bureaucratic institution begins to weigh heavy on newly hired teacher Vanessa Armstrong's weary shoulders, her once separate roles as a creative artist and a college professor gradually begin to overlap. Her internal conflict at an all-time high, Vanessa must now take charge of a sniping cast and crew, overcome academic prejudice, and somehow manage to pull it all together at the last minute or risk seeing all of her hard work turned to dust come opening night.
by Jason Buchanan
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