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D.C. Copeland is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. His play Jitterbug! (based on his screenplay) has had two NYC readings. The first was at the prestigious National Black Theatre in Harlem. The last one was during the Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) New Works Fest championing new musicals. That one had dance numbers by Emmy nominated choreographer Jeffrey Page....

D.C. Copeland is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. His play Jitterbug! (based on his screenplay) has had two NYC readings. The first was at the prestigious National Black Theatre in Harlem. The last one was during the Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) New Works Fest championing new musicals. That one had dance numbers by Emmy nominated choreographer Jeffrey Page. Both were directed by award-winning actress and playwright Petronia Paley. Jitterbug! also has Educator Manuals and Student Questionnaires based on the National Core Arts Standards in Dance, Music (Composition and Ensemble Strands), Theatre, Literature, and History/Social Studies. You can learn more about the dancical at http://www.jittrbug.net/ Copeland also wrote the documentary "On the road to Olustee" which is about Florida's biggest Civil War battle. He wrote and directed a children's TV pilot for a family-friendly cooking show called "Cookabunga!" starring veteran stand-up comic Heywood Banks. As a novelist, he has written two YA books (Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole and Nokosee & Stormy: Love & Bullets) http://www.newseminole.com/. Currently, Copeland has been hired to write the book for a new musical called "Fajardo: The Beat Goes On." http://bit.ly/1z0JtAl

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