EARL BILLINGS By Dale Ricardo Shields “I once sat down to a Tea Party with a four-year-old girl and got an Acting lesson. I played with a ball of string with a kitten and learned focus. I sat at a bus stop and listen to an old man talk and learned to listen. I’ve …
VINNETTE JUSTINE CARROLL The first African-American woman to direct on Broadway and the first Black woman to receive a Tony Award nomination, for her direction of the musical revue “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” in 1972. “We still need Black theatre. But I think we need to show Black people just living, just trying …
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) A groundbreaking American playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist, Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright ever to win the Best American Play Award from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle for A Raisin in the Sun. Her other works include The Sign in Sidney …
