(upbeat music) - Plan-B Theatre's "FULL COLOR" is the third installment of the "COLOR" series and features fictional characters in fictional worlds, influenced by the playwright's personal experience.

Bijan Hosseini and Chris Curlett are here with more details about the production.

Hi, both.

Thanks for being here.

- Good morning.

- Thank you, Mary.

- So Chris, I'm gonna start with you.

You know, we hear about playwrights' voices all the time in theater.

So tell me how this whole thing came about, and how many of you are there involved in this?

- Yeah, so it came about a few years ago.

Jerry had actors of color come together and just talk about some of our, I guess, things we're upset about in the community and things we want to learn.

And so a lot of us wanted to be playwrights, so he empowered us to write.

And so this is the third iteration of "IN COLOR," and there are eight playwrights in this one.

- Eight of you, so each one has a monologue, right?

- Yes.

- Okay, okay, and Bijan.

'cause I know you're a playwright, you're an actor, so what's it like to have somebody else play you?

- Alec Kalled is playing the younger version of me, which is great because he's younger than me and still has a full head of hair.

So I'll take it.

(Mary and Chris laugh) - You have a full head of hair.

- From this angle.

- So these monologues, obviously, are based on your own experiences, but you fictionalize them, - Mm-hmm.

- and how was that?

What was that like?

How'd you decide, what am I gonna write that makes people understand me?

- I took my time with it to kind of reflect on my experience here.

I moved here from Los Angeles, and I had no idea of the temperature, of the culture and everything here.

So there was a lot of learning.

I felt like a little anthropologist, but I put all that into my writing.

- All right, all right.

And I'll start with you Bijan.

What do you want people to take away from this when they see it?

- I don't think we necessarily have an agenda of like, "Hey, this is what I want you to think or feel when you leave the theater."

I think we just hope that if we do a good job, people will leave thinking and feeling something.

- Great, great.

Well, thank you both for being here and I really am looking forward to it.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, Mary.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Plan-B production, "FULL COLOR," it opens October 7th.

Go to planbtheatre.org.

That's planbtheatre.org.

Notice the re in theatre.

I'm Mary Dickson.

Thanks for watching "Contact."

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