Cofounder and artistic director of the famed Negro Ensemble Company, Douglas Turner Ward is also the country's foremost authority on African Americans in theatre. Playwright and educator Gus Edwards talked with Ward about the opportunities for African American actors. The result is the first book to address the creative and professional challenges of acting from a specifically African American perspective. For the actor of color, these conversations reveal much about important topics, including: 
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<li>ethnic specificity</li> <li>colorblind casting</li> <li>cultural honesty of roles.</li> </ul> The talks also provide immediately usable personal advice on establishing and maintaining a professional career on stage, TV, and film, and covering everything from auditions and acting workshops to dealing with and learning fromaudiences and sustaining long runs. Advice to a Young Black Actor is an indispensable book pioneering effort that is long overdue.

Advice to a Young Black Actor: Conversations with Douglas Turner Ward

Edwards, Gus

Ward, Douglas Turner

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann Drama

THE STORY: A liberal white couple, entertain a sophisticated black couple in their rather strange, sheet-shrouded living room. The whites, filled with hypocrisy, and the blacks, concealing their contempt, put on a show of super-cordiality and friendship. But the false brightness soon palls, and the host and hostess become rattled at the simplest request from their guests. Then the black couple leave and the white couple gleefully tear away the sheets-revealing a horrendous array of plaster pickaninnies and other racist artifacts, while Old Black Joe blasts forth on the hi-fi.

Brotherhood.

Literature & Fiction

Douglas Turner Ward

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Book by Douglas Turner Ward, Ward, Douglas Turner

Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

History & Criticism

Dramatist's Play Service

THE STORY: Concerns the bigoted governor of a Deep South state, who is blackmailed by his beautiful black mistress, and her procurer, into turning over all the money that graft has put in his strongbox--and also into persuading his constituents, ass

The Reckoning.

Two Plays

Okpaku Communications Corp

Two plays by the founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, a multiple Tony and Drama Award winner.

Two Plays: Happy Ending and A Day Of Absence

Third Pr Review of Books

Day of Absence / Happy Ending (Illuminations)

Theatre Communications Group

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