About Broadway Night Out

  

Created by writer, actress, producer, & radio personality, Raqiyah Mays, Broadway Night Out is a marketing, promotions and event planning company specializing in parties, seminars, screenings, showcases, and assorted events. Past Broadway Night Out projects include work with Warner Brothers’ “Crazy, Stupid, Love” starring Steve Carell, BET’s “Lens on Talent,” the African American Women in Cinema Film Festival, and international fashion glossy 360 Magazine.

 

  

CONTACT:

Broadwaynightout@gmail.com

 

560 S. Main St.

Los Angeles, CA 90013

 

Raqiyah Mays & “The Best Man” Director Malcolm Lee at Broadway Night Out’s seminar event “The Filmmaker’s View”

   

 About Raqiyah Mays

Raqiyah Mays is a writer, actress, and producer. As a radio personality, she began her NYC broadcasting career with a show at City College’s WHCR FM before moving on to Sirius Satellite Radio as a personality and producer for legendary DJ Grandmaster Flash. Later, Raqiyah hosted a weekend slot on Power 105 FM, before switching Hip Hop stations to host a Sunday afternoon show on Hot 97. In a year, she began simultaneously running a show on Hot 97 while also working as entertainment reporter for 98.7 Kiss FM’s “Wake Up Club” morning show. After three years, Raqiyah was elevated to co-host the show’s daily 6a-10a broadcast, before taking on a quick stint membership with “The DL Hughley Morning Show.” She’s handled the microphone and hosted major shows at some of NYC’s most popular venues, including Radio City Music Hall, The Apollo, and Giant’s Stadium. Today, Raqiyah focuses on acting and producing events with her newest success as the founder of Broadway Night Out. An event planning and production company for the Film, TV and Theater industry, Broadway Night Out produces the critically acclaimed event, “The Filmmaker’s View.” A seminar for aspiring actors, writers and producers, guest speakers of “The Filmmaker’s View” have included writer/director/producer Malcolm Lee and Emmy/Golden Globe nominated writer, producer, director Nelson George. Broadway Night Out clients have included BET, Miss Black USA, and the 13th Annual African American Women in Cinema Film Festival.

In 2009, VH1 deemed Raqiyah “A Future Leader of Black History,” placing her in commercials for their successful “Future of Black History” TV campaign. Over the years, she’s made TV show appearances all across the small screen as a cultural critic on MTV, BET, VH1, the Fuse Network, and the Fox News Channel’s Hannity and Colmes. 

A finalist in the 2010 IFNY Monologue Slam Competition, Raqiyah’s acting talent was most recently seen performing off-Broadway in the critically acclaimed, AUDELCO award-winning play Platanos and Collard Greens; the second longest running Off-Broadway show in New York City history.  She’s also appeared in the stage plays Auction Block to Hip Hop, Die Laughing, and He Said, She Said. A past member of the New York City cast of The Vagina Monologues, Raqiyah has appeared in several independent films including Conscientious Objector, Let’s Stay Together, Jealousy, Rapsheet: Hip Hop and the Cops, The Art of Love and Struggle, and Flow. Adding to her massive duties, BET recruited Raqiyah’s vocal acting talent to become the voice of the hit reality show, College Hill.

But it was Raqiyah’s previous work as a print journalist that prepared her for the present. Jump starting her career as an editorial assistant at the music publication VIBE, Raqiyah coordinated the magazine’s early charity events for youth. Moving on to become a freelance scribe, she wrote about music, culture, politics, and women for The Associated Press, VIBE, Essence, Billboard, The Source, XXL, and Complex Magazine. A founder and former Executive Editor of the socially conscious hip hop publication, The Ave, she was also reporter at large for the VIBE book Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G, which was turned into the critically acclaimed feature film, Notorious.

Whether on radio, stage, TV, film or in print, Raqiyah Mays strives to mentally motivate, stimulate, and inspire the masses. She has spoken on and moderated panels at youth, music, cultural and political conferences across the country. 

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