Why Tony-Winning Actor Joaquina Kalukango Has Started Telling Stories as a Writer, Too

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Gordon Cox Theater EditorAudiences already know Joaquina Kalukango as an actor onstage (“Slave Play”) and on screen (“One Night in Miami”) — and on the most recent Tony Awards telecast, when she capped off a roof-raising performance with a Tony win for her work in the musical “Paradise Square.” What fans might not know, though, is that she’s also at work on a few projects as a writer.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“I am trying to concentrate on narratives of our culture specifically, because I don’t see them,” Kalukango said on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. “I also am writing.

I’m Angolan so there are specific stories I want to tell from my community as well.” For now, she’s declining to share too many details of what she’s writing. “I will say it’s been great to research even my tribe, and my culture and my family history.

I started taping my parents. … They came as political refugees to this country, and that journey was just so phenomenal that I was like: ‘Okay, I have to get this written.

I have to figure this out.'”She added, “There’s a TV show in the mix, there’s a movie in the mix. Plays kind of terrify me! So I have to wait on that.