Kinnik Sky’s “Peace Be Still” hits the stage

With seven NAACP theater awards, Kinnik Sky shines as a beacon of artistic brilliance. As a multifaceted producer, actor, and playwright, she prepares to entertain Atlantans with her latest theatrical work, “Peace Be Still.”

Sky’s journey as a former hopeful contestant on “American Idol” weaves an exciting narrative, but her love for the arts began long before her national television debut. For example, her youth was filled with impromptu performances in front of a one-person audience.

“Since I was a small child, I would go in my room and get my church shoes and tell my daddy to watch me tap, but I never took a tap dance class in my life,” Sky said.

Yet, it is not just her flair for entertainment that defines her. Sky credits her work ethic to her late father’s emphasis on consistency and professionalism.

“My dad is my work ethic,” Sky said. “The principles that he instilled really stayed with me and have carried me to the point that I am in life today.”

Although many might see her time on the fifth season of “American Idol” as her big break, Sky views it as a significant learning experience.

“It almost broke me, my spirit, literally,” Sky said. “I look at the experience very differently, but I am moving into a place of not having regrets and just understanding that everything that I experienced created who I am, and I was meant to experience it for whatever reason.”

However, it was through navigating Hollywood and the entertainment industry’s intricacies that she found her true calling: writing, acting, and producing for the stage, a medium that she said offers a direct connection between the artist and their audience.

“It took me a long time to realize that just as much as you have people cheering you on, you have people that detest that somehow you’re still always able to make it happen,” Sky said. “When you eliminate the middleman, it’s a harder, longer, harder, longer, harder, longer journey.

But it puts me in a different position because then I’m able to give my art directly to my audience without someone else telling me what I can and cannot do,” Sky said.

Sky’s plays “Pieces” and its sequel, “ Peace Be Still ,” encompass the complexities of life and relationships and draw audiences into an introspective journey that challenges their perceptions.

And as both the writer and producer, she ensures that each production carries her unmistakable mark of authenticity and professionalism and pushes the limits of independent theater.

“You’re watching more than just a playwright. You’re watching more than just somebody who decided to do stage plays,” Sky said. “I fell into my purpose. And my purpose for my audiences is life changing. In the most beautiful, complex, messy, real way.”

As she gears up for the premiere of “Peace Be Still” at the Balzer Theatre at Herren’s , she extends an invitation to experience a production that promises not just entertainment but a transformative encounter with art and storytelling.

“There’s not an emotion that you will not feel deeply by the time you leave that theater,” Sky said. “So, if God is giving you the opportunity to know about this, you need to come [and] get your whole life on April 20, let’s be clear.”

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