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 …
Stanley Wayne Mathis by Dale Ricardo Shields “I read somewhere many years ago while working on the West Coast (The Jelly’s Last Jam workshop at The Mark Taper Forum) “Fame is what others give you. Success is what you give yourself.” – Stanley Wayne Mathis Stanley Wayne Mathis has directed and …
