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	American Masters . Negro Ensemble Co. \| PBS
		Though the new company succeeded in attracting audiences from all walks of life, they ran into a number of political and economic difficulties.
		Among the many plays produced by the Negro Ensemble Company were such greats as Peter Weiss' "Song of the Lucitanian Bogey", Lonnie Elder's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" (1969) and Charles Fuller's "Zooman and the Sign" (1980).
		In the 1972-73 season the resident company was disbanded, staff was cut back, training programs canceled, and salaries deferred.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/negro_ensemble_co.html (948 words)

	LA Weekly - Company Town
		These are the kinds of services that companies must provide to their volunteer/dues-paying membership in order to keep them.
		Ensemble Studio Theaterâs Laura Jane Salvato spins on her heels when asked whether the theater in Los Angeles is really a profession, or just a hobby.
		Company members are mostly over 40 years old â” hence the in-house training academy, to âpass the torch.â After a series of Monday-night salons through the early â90s, the troupe was solidified into an arm of the Mark Taper Forum, where it performed Equity workshops of classical plays being considered for production there.
	www.laweekly.com /general/features/company-town/1762 (1675 words)

	2econd Stage Theatre: Soldier Interviews
		His 1981 landmark, A Soldier's Play was his fourth collaboration with the Negro Ensemble Company, New York's critically acclaimed, but financially embattled theater company formed to focus on themes of fl life.
		No one could have predicted what a boon A Soldier's Play would be for both the company and for its author: the Negro Ensemble Company production ran Off-Broadway for over a year and toured the US with stops at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum.
		The twelve-person ensemble drama was so masterfully crafted that it earned Fuller the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
	www.secondstagetheatre.com /soldier/soldier_interviews.htm (542 words)

	Herberger College of Fine Arts \| School of Theatre and Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Douglas Tuner Ward is the co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company as well an actor, director and playwright.
		In 1967, the Negro Ensemble Company was officially opened with Ward serving as Artistic Director.
		As a result of Ward's and others' hard work, the Negro Ensemble Company has produced more then 200 plays and has been a place for fl actors to gain experience and prominence in theatre.
	theatre.asu.edu /venus/bios.html (1988 words)

	ASCAP Jazz: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
		From 1965 to 1970, he was co-founder and associate conductor for the Symphony of the New World and served as its acting music director during the 1972-73 season.
		At the Center for Black Music Research, Perkinson was artistic advisor to Ensemble Stop-Time, the Center's grant-funded ensemble formed to explore the commonalities between the various fl vernacular music forms, including jazz and gospel.
		The Ensemble also performed for members of congress in Washington DC and in New York City.
	www.ascap.com /jazz/perkinson.html (514 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Negro Ensemble Company
		The NEC has in fact been the source of many of the most familiar fl actors and actresses in film and television today, many of whom are interviewed in this program.
		One of the NEC's most important functions was to act as the home of many of the finest fl plays of the last 30 years -- Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play and Ceremonies In Dark Old Men; Joseph Walker's River Niger and Home by Samm-Art Williams.
		The NEC's founders were playwright, actor, and director Douglas Turner Ward, actor-producer Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone the administrator.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=7505 (173 words)

	Do Black theatre institutions translate into great drama? - Negro Ensemble Company African American Review - Find ...
		The NEC is one in a line of African American theater institutions and programs that have not fully prospered because of a lack of financial support or support that took the institution away from nurturing what August Wilson describes as "art that feeds the spirit and celebrates the life of fl America" ("Ground" 16).
		During the Depression, the Negro Unit of the WPA provided employment and a theatrical laboratory, and served as a stimulus for the Negro Playwrights' Company and the American Negro Theater of the '40s.
		The Negro Playwrights' Company, incorporated as a non-profit organization in May, 1940, by George Norford, was another promising institution that fell to financial pressures.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n4_v31/ai_20425708 (773 words)

	943wybc.com: Inside 943wybc.com The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.
		The Negro Ensemble Company was founded in 1967 by actor/producer Robert Hooks, playwright Douglas Turner Ward and theater manager Gerald S. Krone.
		The Negro Ensemble Company is the longest-running African American theater company in the United States.
		The overall mission of the NEC is to present live theatre performances by and about fl people to a culturally diverse audience that is often underserved by the theatrical community.
	943wybc.com /inside/blackhistory/negroensemble.html (248 words)

	Character actress Frances Foster dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		NEW YORK -- Frances Foster, a stage and film character actress, stage director and founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company, has died at 73 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
		Foster was with the Negro Ensemble Company from 1967 to 1986, appearing in more than 25 of its productions.
		The other honors included one of the company's Adolph Caesar awards in 1987 and two of the annual Audelco Awards, which honor achievement in fl theater: a best actress award in 1978 for Do Lord Remember Me, and a best director award for 1983 for Hospice.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/06/24/obit-foster.0-0.html (271 words)

	Ford Foundation: Ford Foundation Annual Report 1968 - 29
		A spectrum of efforts to provide outlets and training for Negro theatrical talent was assisted—from fl theaters to more unstereotyped roles for Negro actors in racially integrated companies.
		The Negro Ensemble Company, established less than two years ago with Foundation support, received a $750,000 grant for two additional years.
		The Arena Stage of Washington, D.C., which has led in integrating the established nonprofit residential theater, received $250,000 to augment its company to consist of about one-third fl actors and to stage more plays in which the fl-white relation in America is a major theme.
	www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/1968/060.cfm (580 words)

	Steve Carter (playwright) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Horace Carter to an African-American father from the South and a mother of Caribbean descent, he is professionally known as steve carter (spelled in all lowercase letters).
		In 1967, he joined the staff of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and remained there until 1981.
		With the exception of Dame Lorraine, all of the plays in the trilogy premiered at the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Carter_(playwright) (499 words)

	Theater Schmeater
		Originally produced to great acclaim by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1979, and then transferred to Broadway, HOME is a classical and joyful coming of age story of a young fl man from North Carolina.
		Willliams became a member of the Negro Ensemble Company Playwright's Workshop, and later became a member of their Acting Repertory.
		Of his plays, the Negro Ensemble Company has produced Home, A Love Play, Welcome to Black River and Eyes of the American.
	www.schmeater.org /season2001/home.htm (454 words)

	Sheila Frazier
		It wasn’t until Richard Roundtree [of “Shaft” fame] convinced me to study acting at the Negro Ensemble Company.
		I had been studying acting at HB Studios in New York under Bill Hickey, then at The Negro Ensemble Company under Gil Moses and under Dick Anthony Williams at the New Federal Theatre.
		I had been with the Negro Ensemble Company for only a few months when Richard Roundtree helped me get an audition with Gordon Parks, Jr.
	www.beansouptimes.com /Sheila_Frazier.htm (1488 words)

	Beverly Hills/Hollywood Branch Recognizes Blacks in Theater Crisis, The - Find Articles
		Founded in 1967, the New York-based NEC has been a major production company for more than 30 years.
		The Negro Ensemble Company was one of the major production companies for Black theater in the country.
		Scenes from some of the classic plays produced by the NEC, such as A Soldier's Story and The River Niger, will be performed during the awards celebration.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200501/ai_n9522101 (367 words)

	BlackPlays.com - Book Store
		The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was formed in New York City in 1967 with support from the Ford Foundation to aid in the establishment of an independent African-American theater institution.
		Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company allows scholars and practitioners an opportunity to review a diversity of styles which share common philosophical, mythic, and social ideals that can be traced to an African worldview.
		Waiting for her are her fl musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager.
	www.blackplays.com /bookstore.html (8024 words)

	e-Course: The Shakespearean Sonnet and the Modern Voice
		She was the Master Teacher of Voice at NYU from 1965 to 1977 while also working with the Open Theater, the Negro Ensemble Company, Stratford, Ontario, the Guthrie Theatre and Broadway shows.
		She was cofounder of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1977.
		She is a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow, lecturer, writer and actor, playing the title role in King Lear, produced by The Company of Women, her all-women Shakespeare company codirected with Carol Gilligan.
	ccnmtl.columbia.edu /projects/ecourse/sonnet.html (614 words)

	TriggerStreet.com \| writer4reel
		Diana, a communications graduate, continues to strive towards accomplishing her goals and dreams.
		As a full fledge artist she was awarded a scholarship at The Negro Ensemble Company to develop her acting skills.
		The Negro Ensemble Company is home to several of the film industries most talented and prominent performers such as Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Samual Jackson, and Laurence Fishburne.
	www.triggerstreet.com /gyrobase/Member?oid=oid:939919 (151 words)

	Velina Hasu Houston
		Her play, "Calling Aphrodite," was selected as part of the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre's Summer Reading Series 2006; and will have its world premiere in August 2007 at International City Theatre, Long Beach, California, directed by Shashin Desai; dramaturge, Pamela Berlin.
		Houston is also under commission by Mixed Blood Theatre Company to pen an ensemble piece, "Messy Utopia," with four other mixed-race writers: Naomi Iizuka, Aldo Velasco, Aditi Kapil, and Seema Sueko.
		She is an artistic associate of the Sacramento Theatre Company.
	www.velinahasuhouston.com (1133 words)

	EURweb.com - PEOPLE OF NOTE: Hattie Winston --Doing Her Part To Make A Difference In The World
		An original member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), Hattie joined the Ensemble in New York after Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks and Gerald Krone founded it in 1967.
		We were all down in Atlanta with the Black Arts Festival which honored the Negro Ensemble Company.
		So, occasionally, I will see a resume that claims the person was an original cast member of the Negro Ensemble Company.
	www.eurweb.com /story/eur14751.cfm (1346 words)

	Alexander Street Press \| Black Drama
		That is they must be written by Negro authors who understand from birth and continual association just what is means to be a Negro today.
		That is, the theatre must cater primarily to Negro audiences and be supported and sustained by their entertainment and approval.
		Of particular interest is material written as “Township Theatre” in South Africa under apartheid and during the development of fl grassroots urban theatre.
	www.alexanderstreet.com /products/bldr.htm (894 words)

	Charles Fuller
		November 25, 1980 - First produced at Theatre Four, New York City by the Negro Ensemble Company under the direction of Douglas Turner Ward.
		Zooman and the Sign was presented at Cass Technical High School in Detroit during November of 1991.
		November 28, 1981 - First produced at Theatre Four, New York City by the Negro Ensemble Company under the direction of Douglas Turner Ward.
	www.bridgesweb.com /blacktheatre/fuller.html (991 words)

	Richard III Society--Carlyle Brown's The African Company Presents Richard III
		As the African Company readied its Richard III, the Park Theatre, the premier theater in New York, was about to reopen after a disastrous fire.
		On October 1 the company moved to a new locale at Mercer and Bleecker streets, where they were again forced to close down.
		He is the founding artistic director of The Laughing Mirror Theatre, an experimental ensemble company devoted to the research and development of Black American theatrical forms.
	www.r3.org /mckellen/africa.html (1313 words)

	Play v. Players -- Friday, Dec. 27, 1968 -- Page 1 -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Negro Ensemble Company seems to be forging a dubious tradition of brilliantly staging mediocre material.
		God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of fl-white relations in the U.S. Mclver's intentions unfortunately outrun his wit; the jokes are just not bright enough to shine up the cliches about Whitey's hypocrisies—ecclesiastical and lay.
		But the players of the Negro Ensemble, under the direction of Michael A. Schultz, endow this "minstrel-morality play" with a lively inventiveness and bounce it was never born with.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,900463,00.html (431 words)

	Hemsley, Sherman
		Here, he became a member of the famed Negro Ensemble Company.
		He began taking acting lessons, but was becoming discouraged at his lack of progress.
		Worked eight years for the U.S. Postal Service; active in the advanced workshop of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City; appeared in various stage productions; starred in local television comedy series Black Book in Philadelphia, Broadway debut in Purlie, 1970; star, several television series since 1979; owner of Love Is, Inc. production company.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/hemsleysher/hemsleysher.htm (794 words)

	Freedom Theatre Website
		Dallas has won recognition and several awards for his work on and Off-Broadway and regionally at such theaters as the Negro Ensemble Company, American Place, Yale Rep, Crossroads, Alliance and Baltimore’s Center Stage where he was a Director Fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts.
		Awards include an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts (May, 2002), a local Emmy Award (San Francisco), New York’s prestigious AUDELCO National Achievement Award for Excellence in Black Theatre, and several Bronze Jubilee Awards for Outstanding Direction.
		Dallas has turned Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre into one of the finest regional companies.” His world-premiere production of Charles Smith’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, produced by New York’s Acting Company, enjoyed a national tour, a critically acclaimed Off Broadway run and earned him a 2002 AUDELCO nomination for Best Director.
	www.freedomtheatre.org /artistic_director.asp (560 words)

	Course descriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In reading and in class discussions, we will focus not only on the plays but also on the particular historical and theatrical moments which produced those plays.
		We will examine theatre companies such as the Provincetown Players, the Group theatre and the Negro Ensemble Company, the regional theatre movement, off and off-off Broadway, the impact of the Depression and the W.P.A. on theatre-making, new theatre forms such as performance art and one-person shows (Spalding Gray, Anna Deveare Smith).
		The goal of this course is to chart the living history of American theatre as it shapes and reshapes itself to respond to the urgent social, political and spiritual needs of the American national community.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /theatrearts/courses/475.html (153 words)

	A Soldier's Play Favorable Review of Fuller's Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After fourteen seasons, the Negro Ensemble Company can no longer be regarded as an exotic enterprise on the fringe.
		The N.E.C. came into being because the established American theater didn’t seem to have any place for the fl experience.
		Its stance was either aggressive, that of an adversary, or defensive, which meant insular and self-validating; it stumbled, fell, rose and kept going.
	www.enotes.com /soldiers-play/21204 (189 words)

	Huntington Theatre Company
		EUGENE LEE (Eli) was previously a member of the internationally renowned Negro Ensemble Company, where he appeared in Charles Fullerâs Pulitzer prize-winning A Soldierâs Play.
		Lee also appeared in regional theatre productions with Crossroads Theatre Company in New Jersey, Baltimoreâs Center Stage, and New Yorkâs WPA Theatre.
		On the west coast, he appeared in Eyes of the American at Los Angeles Theatre Center and Split Second with Denzel Washington and Alfre Woodard at Los Angeles Mayfair Theatre.
	www.huntingtontheatre.org /season/gem/bios/eugene_lee.aspx (276 words)

	BTAA - BLACK THEATER ALLIANCE AWARDS, INC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1967, actor Robert Hooks, playwright Douglas Turner Ward, and theater manager Gerald Krone founded the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), the catalyst for this project was the 1959 production of "A Raisin in the Sun".
		NEC was created to concentrate primarily on themes of fl life.
		Since its founding the NEC has produced more than two hundred new plays among them; The River Niger, which won a Tony Award for Best Play of the Year in 1974, A Soldiers Play, Zooman and the Sign, Ceremonies In Dark Old Men, Day of Absence, and The Dutchman.
	www.btaawards.org (5409 words)

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