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Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation In America

Award-winning writer and international performer Monique DeBose explores race, family and identity through her unique lens of being born to a southern African American father and Irish upstate New York
mother. Performed with original music, Monique exposes the beauty, disgrace and complication of both the black and white worlds she experienced growing up amid the political and racial tension in the
seventies that is still prevalent today. Experience the bravery, vulnerability, hilarity, ignorance andridiculousness that is race and identity in America.

Mulatto Math – Exploring many aspects of the race conversation that you’ve questioned your self, but have perhaps been too afraid to speak out loud about.

MONIQUE DEBOSE – Playwright and Performer LA native Monique DeBose is an award-winning, multi-talented playwright and Jazz-R&B-pop
singer/songwriter, who has toured and entertained audiences throughout Europe, India and Asia. Her third album–The Sovereign One–is scheduled for release in Fall 2018. A leading vocal improvisationalist (having studied under Rhiannon and Joey Blake of the renowned Bobby McFerrin Voicestra), Monique now leads an international community of over 500 vocal artists throughout the United States and Europe. Inspired by her experience of of what it means to be half African American, half Irish American, she wrote the funny, heartwarming and disruptive one-woman show Mulatto Math: Summing Up The Race Equation in America to initiate conversation and heal race relations in America. She calls LA home, is married to a Brit and is raising two compassionate, culturally intelligent boys.

DENISE DOWSE – Director
Denise Dowse, originally from Honolulu Hawaii the daughter of a Naval officer, graduated from Norfolk State University with a BA in English/Theatre. Denise is best known to television audiences for her
recurring role as Vice-Principal Mrs. Teasley on the long running hit Beverly Hills 90210 and was a series regular on the sitcom Built to Last. She’s guest starred on shows such as BRAVO’S new series
The Imposters (recurring), Murder in the First (recurring), ABC’s Secrets & Lies, Criminal Minds, Saving Grace, The Mentalist, Law & Order, Charmed, The Guardian (recurring) and The West Wing. Her feature film work includes The Call, Ray, Coach Carter, Reign Over Me and Requiem for a Dream. When not working in television or film Denise wears other hats. She’s been seen onstage throughout Los Angeles in Dr. Morrow’s Three Times a Lady, Sassy Mamas, Above the Line, Darker Face of the
Earth, Vagina Monologues, South of Where We Live and Othello. As a five time NAACP Best Director recipient Denise began directing in Germany where she held the position of theatre specialist and built a
program consisting of active duty military and their families alongside German nationals before moving to Los Angeles and eventually began to direct here.

Denise is also a private audition coach, worked on Girlfriends as their dialogue coach for 4 seasons, Reed Between the Lines for two and was the Resident Director at Amazing Grace Conservatory (a weekend performing arts school for youth ages 8-18) for 18 years. She recently directed Hairspray and Ease on Down the Road for Celerity Schools and the summer of 2016 remounted the 2015 (14 week sold out run) of Recorded in Hollywood at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.