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A living archive of professional coverage of CodeSwitchers Productions and Deontay Wilson — from the Bay Area stage to independent film and Chicago’s West Side.
Archive initialized August 2026 · Additional historical coverage will be added as it is recovered.
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Watch the 1:16 CBS Chicago featureCBS Chicago · April 25, 2023
CBS Chicago profiles Deontay Wilson and Westside Stories: Paradise Lost ahead of its West Side premiere, focusing on a film determined to hold the neighborhood’s challenges and triumphs in the same frame.
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St. Francis Xavier Parish
Film & CodeSwitchers · 2023
A parish bulletin documents a community screening and discussion of Paradise Lost with Deontay Wilson and executive producer Fr. Larry Dowling.
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Film & CodeSwitchers · April 25, 2023
CBS Chicago profiles Deontay Wilson and Westside Stories: Paradise Lost ahead of its West Side premiere, focusing on the film’s effort to portray both the challenges and resilience of Chicago’s West Side.
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Film & CodeSwitchers · April 25, 2023
The Sun-Times previews Paradise Lost and Wilson’s larger Westside Stories project, tracing the planned series from the Great Migration through housing discrimination, disinvestment and the drug era.
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Film & CodeSwitchers · April 27, 2023
The Kehrein Center’s official premiere listing records the Chicago screening and identifies Paradise Lost as a Best Documentary winner at the Crown Point International Film Festival.
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Film & CodeSwitchers · April 28, 2023
A post-premiere account of Paradise Lost documents the audience response, Wilson’s description of Westside Stories as an epic narrative, and the project’s focus on historical context and West Side resilience.
Read originalGerbode Foundation
Awards & Recognition · 2006
The Gerbode Foundation’s archive lists American Conservatory Theatre / Deontay Wilson among the 2006 Emerging Playwright Award recipients.
Read originalSan Francisco Chronicle / SFGATE
Awards & Recognition · 2006
The Chronicle reports that Wilson would develop an African American reimagining of Dante’s Inferno with American Conservatory Theater under the Gerbode/Hewlett award program.
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Theater & Performance · July 4, 2006
Robert Hurwitt reviews Wilson’s solo work American Limbo, praising its poetic writing, intellectual ambition and transformative multi-character performance.
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Theater & Performance · June 13, 2006
SFist previews American Limbo as an ambitious Dante-inspired solo work and notes Wilson’s performance of eight characters.
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Theater & Performance · March 10, 2006
A review of A.C.T.’s On the Bum names Wilson among the performers singled out as emerging talents and notes the cast’s facility with multiple roles.
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Theater & Performance · September 4, 2006
Hurwitt’s review of Mark Jackson’s Salome at Aurora Theatre Company identifies Wilson among four supporting actors delivering sharply focused performances and striking tableaux.
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Theater & Performance · October 5, 2005
In A.C.T.’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Hurwitt highlights Wilson’s Azdak as a forceful, volatile and argumentative presence at the center of Brecht’s second story.
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