Missing Front Plate Productions

02/07/2026

✊🏾 Celebrate Black Voices! ✊🏾

📍Join us in the Taproom TODAY, Saturday, February 7th from 12pm-6pm for a celebration of Black creativity and impact within our community!

🍻12-6pm: Black-owned business vendor market and food by Maw Maw’s
🍻1pm-1:30pm: Q-Kidz performance
🍻2pm-6pm: DJ Queen Celine

🌟We are releasing Mack's Island Ale, a Tropical Beer with Ginger, named after Theodore Mack Sr., owner/operator of one of America’s first Black-owned breweries, Peoples Brewing Co. $1 per pint of Mack's Island Ale sold will support Q-Kidz Dance Team, an organization that provides dance and educational programs to youth in Cincinnati. Q-Kidz plays an essential role in the community by offering youth a safe and supportive platform for creative expression, communication, and accountability.
This event was brought to life by Rhinegeist’s BIPOC and Allies Employee Resource Group, and is FREE and open to the public.

10/18/2024

The official info: Monday, October 28th, 2024. 7PM at the Rosenthal Shelterhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. No reservations necessary. "The Ravenside Occurrence", a play in Two Acts by Derek J. Snow. Directed by Piper Davis. Orchestration composed by Jimmie A. Parker. Image designed and painted by the incomparable . Sound design by Tom Peters.

My incredible cast:
Emma Clifton: Meredith Frankie Crutcher
Nora Dale: Abi Esmena
Hazel Correy: Tess Talbot
Bethany Avon: Aiden Sims

Come support, if you're able. We'd love to see you there as this play takes its next developmental step! Thanks, friends!

Thank you to Joanie Schultz and Tatiana Godfrey as well as CPIP for making me a recipient of the Jerome Fey Play Commission Fund. Thank you, Blake! Additional thanks to the wonderful friends at ArtsWave for awarding me the 2024 Black and Brown Artists Grant which allowed me to hire a composer to write all of the original music you will hear during the reading. This project was truly blessed by the best people.

For more info: https://cincyplay.com/tickets/Arts-Culture-Incubator

07/06/2023

🎉MFP t-shirts are now available!!!

*Missing Front Plate Productions is a 501(c)(3) non profit.

🧑🏾‍💻 https://mfpproductions.square.site/support-the-work (link in bio)

07/06/2023

🎉It’s MFP’s anniversary!! (And, also founder, Derek J. Snow’s birthday!!!) You can now get your own Missing Front Plate t-shirts on our site to help support the work (donations are always welcome, too!).

🙌🏾Thank you to all those that have been there since the beginning.

*Missing Front Plate Productions is a 501(c)(3) non profit.

🧑🏾‍💻 https://mfpproductions.square.site/support-the-work

04/19/2023

I've been working hard, so I apologize for not updating this page. This is huge for MFP! I can now announce that my play, "Silas, the Uninvited" is headlining the Waterworks Festival in Virginia next month! I am overwhelmed with gratitude to the folks at Live Arts at the Gibson Theatre who have supported the work from day one. They never wavered. Out of 50 plays, they thought that mine deserved this honor. Still can't wrap my mind around it. Sorry if it's been hard to reach me. It's the discipline and the focus for me. This is the way. 🙏🏾✊🏾💕 https://livearts.org/show/waterworks/. 📸:

08/18/2021

As for me and my house, I will continue to ignore the performative allies and create art that honors the 21 million still in captivity around the globe. Complacency is not an option. Now that we've started talking about diversity and inclusion, what are we actually DOING about it? ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾❤️

07/27/2021

Thank you for the texts, donations and posts supporting what we do. You have my gratitude and my pledge to never compromise the mission or the work...ever! Stay tuned. More good trouble is definitely coming. 🙏🏾❤️✊🏾

07/25/2021

A huge thank you to all of you that donated last year to help support MFP’s launch. The work we have been able to do, the lives we’ve touched, the stories we’ve shared, and the artists we’ve been able to give work to, would not have been possible without all of you. 🙏🏾

As we celebrate MFP’s 1st birthday, we humbly ask for any donations to enable us to do even more in year two. 🎉

PayPal.me/missingfrontplate

03/19/2021

“An Interview with Derek J. Snow, writer of SILAS THE UNINVITED, by Theatre 200 practicum student Jack Troiano” of the College of Creative Arts at Miami University

📸 Photo & Poster Credit :: CJS Photography

Cincinnati-based playwright, Derek J. Snow, shares his inspiration for writing the timely story of 'Silas the Uninvited.'

02/02/2021

🎉THE BREATH PROJECT ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF NEW PLAY COMMISSION INITIATIVE🎉

MFP is proud to be among those to receive this honor!! ✊🏾

Stay tuned.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Kevin Kopjak | Charles Zukow Associates | 415-296-0677 | [email protected] THE BREATH PROJECT ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF NEW PLAY COMMISSION INITIATIVE SAN FRANCISCO (February 2, 2021)— The Breath Project, a new theatrical initiative formed by Artistic Direc...