Randy Ablack

RANDY ABLACK is a fifty-six-year-old Trinidadian writer. He started writing poetry as a teenager and later became interested in playwriting. He has done playwriting workshops with Ramond Ramcharitar and most notably, ‘Festival Arts as Cultural Performance’ with the late Professor Tony Hall. This resulted in the production of his short play: ‘The Same Ol’ Mas’ by Trinidad Theatre Workshop and the radio play: ‘The Serpents Mouth’ by N.D.A.T.T. These plays addressed social concerns, namely the 1990 Trinidad Muslimeen Coup and police corruption. Randy then successfully pursued a degree in Literature and Communications which resulted in him entering U.W.I.’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program. Concurrent with his academic pursuits, he has worked 28 years in the Point-a-Pierre Refinery which provided much material for his upcoming anthology about its demise: The Concrete Jungle Book. Randy believes that the writing process is a search for meaning and an opportunity to examine your life.