One Drop of Love is Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni’s one-woman show, which travels near and far, in the past and present to explore the intersections of race, class and gender in pursuit of truth, justice and love. The show is written and performed by Cox Giovanni and produced by Cox DiGiovanni, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon. Fanshen is an award-winning playwright, actor, producer and educator who has been featured in the New York Times and on NPR and has published OpEds on Shondaland, Blavity and the Washington Post’s The Lily. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cape Verde, West Africa, and has designed curricula for and taught English as a Second Language to students from all over the world. She has been honored with the Peace Corps’ Franklin H. Williams Award, and with Peace Corps Fellows and Hollywood Foreign Press Association scholarships and an ‘Exemplar of Humanity Centered Media’ award by Media Done Responsibly. She holds a BA in Spanish and Education, an MA in TESOL, and an MFA in Acting and Performance in Film, TV and Theater. She serves on the boards of the non-profit MixedRootsStories.org, The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and of Project Greenlight Digital Studios. Her play, One Drop of Love, was awarded Best Non-Fiction Script by the United Solo Theatre Festival, and the film version won Best Documentary Film at the Roxbury International Film Festival and is an official selection of the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the Black International Film Festival.
All our programs are free and open to the public, and we gratefully accept donations.