Samaritan Road Productions
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  • Blog: ".... When The First Family (Of The United States) Has To Assume The Position: #handsupdontshoot…??? By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Exciting Announcement: Winners & Finalists of the GunPlay(s) Competition 2013-2014
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb Earns "Excellent" Teaching Distinction For UIUC Hate Crimes Course!
  • Blog: Challenging The Mess(engers): Destructive Memes And What Gun Violence Sympathizers MUST LEARN From the ALS Movement by Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • "Black BEYOND Ferguson", By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Blog: “Think now, THIIIIIIIINK!”: Media Mayhem, Racial Dissonance and The Curious Rise of NBA “Djangos” By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • The Lutheran magazine May 2014 Issue Profiles Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb's Anti-Gun Violence Efforts!
  • Blog: "...Father, Forgive Them...: A Meditation On Scandal, Facebook and Personal Morality During Holy Week 2014
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  • Blog: UIUC Faculty Women of Color Conference 2014: (Ivory) Tower, WE Have A Problem!
  • Join Us at Church Women United (CWU) State Assembly April 2014: Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb, Featured Speaker
  • Humanizing Justice Conversation With Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb Now Available on You Tube!
  • Humanizing Justice: Dr. Anderson Cobb In Dialogue With Artist-In-Residence Perri McCary for Humanizing Justice Project (Houston TX) Sat. February 22, 2014
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb Discusses Gun Violence On College Campuses: NCTE African American Read-In 2014 (Barnes & Noble, Champaign Illinois)
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  • First Annual GunPlay(s) Competition 2013-2014
  • Buy Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb's TANGLED now from Lulu Publishing!
  • SamaritanRoadGifts Announces: PRAY DON'T SHOOT CLOSE-OUT SALE---EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb's TANGLED now available for purchase & first book signing at McCormick Place in Chicago April 6, 2013!
  • Introduction to Samaritan Road Productions
  • Images from Dr. Anderson Cobb's 2013 Gun Violence & Peacemaking Presentations
  • Dr. Anderson-Cobb's Presentations on Gun Violence & Peacemaking In American Life
  • Media Coverage of Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • CONTACT Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD, at Samaritan Road Productions!
  • SRP Prayer & Ministry Efforts
  • Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) Events
  • The PEOPLE have spoken! Chicago audiences embrace "TANGLED", the play examining gun violence in post-Obama Chicago!!!
  • "TANGLED" BUZZ: MEDIA COVERAGE OF "TANGLED" by Nicole Anderson-Cobb, Ph.D. at eta Creative Arts Foundation March 29-May 19, 2012
  • Invitation to "TANGLED" Supporters
  • Video Diary On The Origins of "TANGLED" March 2012
  • SRP Audience Feedback on "TANGLED"
  • Nicole Anderson-Cobb's "CAMPUS JIHAD" Reading August 12, 2012
  • New SRP Plays & Solo Shows
  • Bringing SRP Plays To Your School, Group or Organization
  • SRP Classes & Workshops
  • SRP: About The Founder
    • Spring 2016 Audio Stories Produced By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD,

158 GunPlay(s) And Counting:  


Closing In On The November 1 Deadline!

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Greetings all!  I hope this message reaches you well.  



Despite a US government shutdown (sigh...more on that in a future blog post...), the GunPlay(s) Competition is stilllllllllllllll moving forward!

Thank you!  Thank you!  THANK YOU ALL for your help and support in spreading the word about the GunPlay(s) Competition. 


Since September 11, 2013, the count of submitted plays have grown from 103 plays to 158 plays--- with 20 days to go before the competition officially closes.


Reading the VAST ARRAY of writing submitted from playwrights across the US, Canada and Europe has given me a profound since of the ways that gun violence IS IMPACTING our daily lives, our thinking, our emotional lives in innumerable ways.  So I thank EVERY writer for sharing his or her work with me.


I also want to offer thanks to those who have agreed to serve as judges and offered informal feedback, support and assistance on the competition.  (Dear judges, I will be contacting you soon to launch the GunPlay(s) Competition commences (smile))

Special thanks must be extended to the following organizations: 

---The Dramatist Guild, JAC Publishing, Insight for Playwrights Newsletter for continued advertising of the project

---Dr. Ronald Bailey and The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of African American Studies & Research for agreeing to serve as the institutional sponsor/host for the 2014 Playreading Festival

--- Madelyn Chapman of the Castillo Theatre (NYC) and Kelly White, Executive Director, 40 North Champaign County Arts Council for consulting on the project

---Verlisa Shanklin, for agreeing to serve as Administrative Assistant for GunPlay(s) Competition

…and to my husband Domonic for being patient with all the plays around the house (smile)

If you, your department, organization or institution would like to serve as a judge, co-sponsor, actor or technician, volunteer 

or want to serve the GunPlay(s) Competition in any capacity, 
please contact me:



Nicole D. Anderson Cobb, Ph.D.

Educator/Playwright/Founder,

Samaritan Road Production Company

1717 W. Kirby Avenue

Suite #371

Champaign, Illinois 61821

Email: samaritanroad@gmail.com

Website: http://www.samaritanroadproductions.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Samaritan-Road-Production-Company/125740790889075?ref=hl

Twitter:  @sandals60617


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Thanks in advance for your support and I’ll be in touch as the competition closes on November 1!




----Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD, GunPlay(s) 2013-2014 Founder & Convener



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  • The Station Theatre Hosts The GunPlay(s) Series, 2016-2017
  • Blog: #Black(FemaleAthletes)LivesMatter at UIUC: One Professor's Regrets By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Blog: “Je suis FATIGUEE”! ( "I Am Tired / Weary!": Pleading For The End of Innocence In An Age of Terror By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Blog: Becoming An AKA In Michael Brown's America By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • "12 Years A... Graduate Student ?...Reflections On The Journey To The PhD ...And Beyond", Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb, Presenter, Northern Illinois University October 22, 2014 6:00 P. M.
  • Blog: ".... When The First Family (Of The United States) Has To Assume The Position: #handsupdontshoot…??? By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Exciting Announcement: Winners & Finalists of the GunPlay(s) Competition 2013-2014
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb Earns "Excellent" Teaching Distinction For UIUC Hate Crimes Course!
  • Blog: Challenging The Mess(engers): Destructive Memes And What Gun Violence Sympathizers MUST LEARN From the ALS Movement by Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • "Black BEYOND Ferguson", By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Blog: “Think now, THIIIIIIIINK!”: Media Mayhem, Racial Dissonance and The Curious Rise of NBA “Djangos” By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • The Lutheran magazine May 2014 Issue Profiles Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb's Anti-Gun Violence Efforts!
  • Blog: "...Father, Forgive Them...: A Meditation On Scandal, Facebook and Personal Morality During Holy Week 2014
  • TANGLED selected for Association For Theatre in Higher Education Post-Conference July 2014!
  • Blog: UIUC Faculty Women of Color Conference 2014: (Ivory) Tower, WE Have A Problem!
  • Join Us at Church Women United (CWU) State Assembly April 2014: Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb, Featured Speaker
  • Humanizing Justice Conversation With Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb Now Available on You Tube!
  • Humanizing Justice: Dr. Anderson Cobb In Dialogue With Artist-In-Residence Perri McCary for Humanizing Justice Project (Houston TX) Sat. February 22, 2014
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb Discusses Gun Violence On College Campuses: NCTE African American Read-In 2014 (Barnes & Noble, Champaign Illinois)
  • Blog: Surviving Sochi? Will YOU Survive (Gun) Terror In America? By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • WGLT: University of Illinois Professor, Playwright Sponsors Gun Violence Play Contest By Judith Valente
  • Blog: The SKIN Game: Oprah, "Colorism and the Mishandling of Black Women's Pain By Black Elites By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • Newtown Remembrances, Holiday Greetings & GunPlay(s) 2013-2014 Update
  • Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb teaching Hate Crimes course at UIUC, Fall 2013!
  • 158 GunPlay(s) and Counting: Closing In On The November 1 Deadline!
  • Blog: In the wake of the Navy Yard shootings, what the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) MUST DO NOW !
  • Blog: "What My Toddler Taught Me About Honoring The Sabbath" by Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • 9/11 Anniverary, Syria and 103+ GunPlay(s)...and Counting...
  • SRP Blog: (My) Fog of War: Oral Surgery, The Hampton Ministers' Conflict and Our Proposed Military Strike Against Syria By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • OVERWHELMING Response to GunPlay(s) Competition 2013-2014...Keep Those Plays Coming!
  • GunPlay(s) Competiton Featured on Dick Gordon's THE STORY on American Public Media
  • First Annual GunPlay(s) Competition 2013-2014
  • Buy Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb's TANGLED now from Lulu Publishing!
  • SamaritanRoadGifts Announces: PRAY DON'T SHOOT CLOSE-OUT SALE---EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!
  • Dr. Anderson Cobb's TANGLED now available for purchase & first book signing at McCormick Place in Chicago April 6, 2013!
  • Introduction to Samaritan Road Productions
  • Images from Dr. Anderson Cobb's 2013 Gun Violence & Peacemaking Presentations
  • Dr. Anderson-Cobb's Presentations on Gun Violence & Peacemaking In American Life
  • Media Coverage of Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD
  • CONTACT Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD, at Samaritan Road Productions!
  • SRP Prayer & Ministry Efforts
  • Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) Events
  • The PEOPLE have spoken! Chicago audiences embrace "TANGLED", the play examining gun violence in post-Obama Chicago!!!
  • "TANGLED" BUZZ: MEDIA COVERAGE OF "TANGLED" by Nicole Anderson-Cobb, Ph.D. at eta Creative Arts Foundation March 29-May 19, 2012
  • Invitation to "TANGLED" Supporters
  • Video Diary On The Origins of "TANGLED" March 2012
  • SRP Audience Feedback on "TANGLED"
  • Nicole Anderson-Cobb's "CAMPUS JIHAD" Reading August 12, 2012
  • New SRP Plays & Solo Shows
  • Bringing SRP Plays To Your School, Group or Organization
  • SRP Classes & Workshops
  • SRP: About The Founder
    • Spring 2016 Audio Stories Produced By Nicole Anderson Cobb, PhD,