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A Brief Biography of Addena Addena Sumter-Freitag is a 7th generation African Canadian. She grew up in Winnipeg's North End, and has lived all across Canada. Addena is well known for her provocative poetry and powerful performances and has been likened to Maya Angelou. Vancouver's Commodore Books is pleased to be publishing her award-winning play, as a book entitled, “Stay Black & Die" December 2007. Make sure to buy a copy, and "strap yourself in, you’re in for the ride of your life." My Background Addena has been involved in theatre, storytelling, and poetry for the last 25 years. She co-directed Black Theatre West’s production of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” at City Stage in Vancouver. The play “Stay Black & Die won Theatre BC’s National Playwriting Competition and won The Frankie Award for the best play of the Montreal Fringe Festival and was awarded a one-week run at The Centaur Theatre in Montreal. “Stay Black & Die” has played across Canada as well as at Australia’s Adelaide Fringe Festival, and has been blessed at each engagement with ‘sold out’ houses. The last several years Addena has shifted her focus toward story-telling and poetry, performing at the Vancouver Storytelling Festival, Vancouver Spoken Word Festival, and the World Poetry Reading Series sponsored monthly by the Vancouver Public Library. This is particularly exciting because World Poetry ‘family’ includes some of the most exciting and talented Canadian poets in BC, whose ‘roots’ span across the globe. Sumter-Freitag is currently active in Vancouver's writing community and is currently working on her next collection of poetry and short fiction.
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