Black Ensemble Theater's Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor announces the 2022 Black Playwrights Festival from April 26-30, 2022, featuring works by Viola Bennett, Jill Ross, Lillian Mitchum, Reginald Williams and Dwight Neal, curated and directed by Black Ensemble Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks. The Black Playwrights Festival features the scripts written by the members of the Black Playwrights Initiative (BPI) and is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.