About The Memories of Bellevue by LaChris Jordan:
La’Chris Jordan’s anticipated novella, THE MEMORIES OF BELLEVUE, blends rich historical fiction and intrigue alongside an engaging love story about Thomas White, a slave owner’s son and Jeyne, the beautiful slave girl he shared his life and dreams with as a young boy. The year is 1861 and talk of a possible war is consuming the nation, especially in the Union stronghold of New Orleans, Louisiana. Yet Thomas, a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad, is determined to rid himself of slavery once and for all and return to the North despite being torn between the past and present, racial prejudice, and the shifting allegiances of an impending conflict. But right before his planned departure, Thomas stumbles across an old diary from his childhood — a diary filled with secrets, private thoughts, and reflections on Jeyne, including the fateful moment in 1838 that changed both their lives forever.
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La’Chris is an actor, poet, novelist and award-winning playwright who was named one of the “50 to WATCH” by the Dramatists Guild of America. Her debut novel “The Memories of Bellevue” was released in May 2014 and is the first book in the Bellevue Trilogy and has already received favorable reviews.
La’Chris’ is best known for her plays which have been produced and developed in theatres across the country including Urban Stages, Karamu House, ACT Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Ashland New Play Festival, the National Black Theatre Festival, and the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. This past summer, La’Chris participated in Robey Theatre’s Playwrights Lab under the artistic direction of Ben Guillory to work on her latest full-length play “All That We Know”. In addition to numerous awards and honors, La’Chris has received artist grants from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Artist Trust. She was also a semifinalist for Juilliard’s 2013 Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Program.
La’Chris is known for creating thought-provoking plays such “Piney Ridge,” “Haram/Forbidden”, and A Momen of Faith (Finalist, Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award) which was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as part of Essential Theatre’s New Play Reading Series under the artistic direction of S. Robert Morgan of HBO’s critically-acclaimed “The Wire.” In 2012, La’Chris’ play “Roses in the Water” was selected as a finalist for the Ashland New Play Festival and a semifinalist for the 2012 Reverie Production’s Next Generation Playwriting Contest in New York. “Roses in the Water” was also a 3rd place winner in the Write Movies International Competition, beating out over 1,000 scripts from around the world; the play won the 2010 Jewel Box Theatre Playwriting Competition for Best Original Play, and was also selected for the Voices at the River Playwriting Residency in Little Rock, Arkansas (dir. Rajendra Maharaj Maroon). In addition to theatre, La’Chris is an actress who has performed in well-known classics such as “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “One Flew Over the was Cuckoo’s Nest,” “The Crucible” and “Hamlet.”
La’Chris is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and Towne Street Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. She also served as a board member for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and was a teaching artist with the ACT Theatre’s Young Playwrights Program (YPP). A broadcast journalism graduate of the University of Washington, La’Chris currently resides in Los Angeles, California. She is currently at work on her second book, “The Embers of Bellevue” which is due to be released in spring 2015.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, people-watching, watching foreign films and antique shopping.
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