This Soil, These Seeds...

Ahh the mother-daughter relationship. If you’re a mother or a daughter (or both) and just cringed, then perhaps you need a therapist. Or maybe you need something that has yet to be discovered. Maybe you don’t know. Need can reach through generations. You could be mistaking your need for that of your great-great-grandmother’s need.  Infused with music, movement, and poetry, in This Soil, These Seeds… a drama therapist journeys to uncover the roots of three strangers whose mother-daughter issues are buried deeper than seeds under soil. But the strangers find themselves in an unexpected multigenerational family intervention.

Bonita Jackson is an actress, writer, teaching artist, and activist based in NYC. She hails from the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”– Minnesota. At thirteen years old, while walking down the hallway of her junior high school she saw a bright fuchsia audition flyer for The Wiz. From the moment she stepped on stage as Addaperle (“the feel-good girl!) her calling to be a storyteller was solidified. And she has answered the call by training at Howard University and Pace University where she obtained her BFA in Acting.  She also holds a Master’s in Acting from FSU/Asolo Conservatory of Actor Training.

Bonita has written, performed, and produced four one-woman shows, and has performed in theatres and festivals in NYC for over ten years. Her theatre credits include As You Like It (FSU Conservatory), Sweat (Asolo Rep.), Corey &Vanessa (The Tank),  The Niceties (Urbanite), Black Footnotes (Nuyorican Poets Café), and Adventures of Kieron & Jade (Bridge Street Theatre).  Film credits include Beneath the Sound, Drowning Above Water, How Does That Make You Feel?, and The Old Man and The Fish.