Interview Feature: Creative Entrepreneurship in Black Speculative Performance

Over the summer, I had an in-depth conversation with Phillip Esteem of The Esteem Awards and Prideindex.com. We talked craft, culture, my own body of work and my thoughts on how visionary art-making can transform our communities.

For anyone new to my work, I think this is a good place to get to know me a bit. And for those more familiar, this provides more context on the ways I’m thinking about myself as a narrative change agent!

We get into the weeds about:

• My NightQueen Performance Suite - all the ways I’ve honed the vision for this saga that spans a stage play, a rock opera, a live lecture event, and more…

• Expanding our collective vision through Afrofuturisms, Afro-surrealism and other frameworks.

• And my own personal journey of course.

The full conversation is available now on PrideIndex here: https://www.prideindex.com/the-writers-edge-derek-mcphatter-on-craft-and-culture/