June 2023 - New York City: Toby Armour worked in the theater as a stage-hand, a dancer, and a choreographer before turning to playwriting. Since then, her plays have been staged from New York to Key West, London to Cairo. Her play Voices From the Black Cannon won the Lewis National Playwriting Competition; Fanon’s People won four Dramalog awards.

Freedom Summer, her latest play, is about two young women - a college girl from the northeast, Sylvie, played by the multi-talented Clara Francesca and Terry, an African-American woman born and raised in Mississippi played by Arianne Banda - who volunteered to register voters in Jackson, Mississippi during the famous Freedom Summer of 1964.

"Freedom Summer," a new play by Toby Armour, is named for the civil rights campaign when northern college students heroically attempted to increase the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi by conducting a registration drive there. The play is inspired by the playwright's own experiences in the campaign as a civil rights worker.

Joan Kane’ invited NYC VIBE to meet with the actors and the legendary writer Toby Armour. By taking the audience back to the v back to Jackson, Mississippi in the Summer of 1964 as there is so much to be learned about organizing voting efforts to overcome racism especially today.

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