Gertrude Jeannette: Actor, Director, Playwright and Producer.
Ted Shine: Playwright, Editor, University Professor and Theatre Department Chair.
Reg E. Cathey, Award-winning Actor of Stage and Television.
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Gertrude Jeannette
She suffered a speech impediment that caused her to stutter, which led her to take
speech classes at the American Negro Theatre. After one year of classes, she was urged to
audition for one of their pro-ductions. With that, she embarked upon her career as an
actress, director and playwright. In 1949 she made her Broadway debut in Lost in the
Stars, followed by appearances in many other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including
the original production of Baldwin's Amen Corner and O'Neill's All God's Chillun
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Ted Shine
As a playwright, he reportedly wrote over 100 plays, mostly one acts. Two plays,
Contribution and Miss Weaver were produced by the Negro Ensemble Company.
Many of the other plays have been produced at a variety of HBCU's including Howard, Hampton,
and Lincoln universities and at the Harlem School of the Arts. Soul Rep Theatre Company in
Dallas produced The Shine Plays in 2015. Three plays were published in a collection
titled, Contributions: Three One-Act Plays in 1970 by Dramatists Play Service. He
also wrote over 60 scripts for the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting's Our Street
series from 1969 to 1973....(continued)
Reg. E. Cathey
While most widely known for his film and TV roles, such as Norman Wilson in The Wire, and his Emmy Award-winning role as Freddie Hayes in House of Cards,
Reg E. Cathey also had an extensive resume as a stage actor. His stage credits include many
roles in such Shakespearean plays as: Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, The
Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, and Timon of Athens; in European
classics: The Miser by Moliere, The Three Sisters by Chekhov and End-game
by Beckett; and in acclaimed contem-porary works: The Death of the Last Black Man in the
Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks....(continued)
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