This is our first episode of our last season!

While Stephanie is recuperating in France with Josephine Baker, we meet the other Queens of Harlem;  Anita Howell, Rita, Polly Adler and even Stephanie's daughter, Michelle.

This episode features:

Isabelle Kerby-McGowan as Anita Howell

Denese Longsworth as Rita Munoz

Karen Chmielnicki as Polly Adler

Nina Smith as Michelle Mondesir

Sound Designed by Collin Thomas

"Harlem Queen" is produced, written and directed by Yhane Washington Smith

Thank you to The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.

We are taking "Harlem Queen" to the stage! Join us on our journey! subscribe to: https://substack.com/@harlemqueen?
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Harlem Queen is an award-winning Black historical fiction audio drama based on the true story of Madame Stephanie St. Clair, the bold, brilliant "Numbers Queen" who built a Harlem empire during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

Written, produced, and directed by Yhane Washington Smith, an A'Leila Bundles Scholar at Columbia University, this five-season series brings Madame St. Clair's world to vivid life through original music, meticulous sound design, and a full cast of characters. Jazzy, glamorous, and unflinching about what it meant to be a Black woman in America in the 1920s.

As featured on ABC's primetime documentary The Story of Soaps. History this rich deserves to be heard.

You can follow on Instagram: @Yhane.Writes, 

our web site: YhaneWashingtonSmith.com, 

email: HarlemQueenAudioDrama@gmail.com. 

or our newsletter: https://harlemqueen.substack.com/



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