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The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City -based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, [1] with funding from the Ford Foundation.
Welcome to the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc website. Highlights this season include Lambs to Slaughter by Khalil Kain & the Emerging Playwrights Competition.
In 1965, Playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer/actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald Krone came together to make these dreams a reality with the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).
The mission of the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC) is to provide African-American, African and Caribbean professional artists with an opportunity to learn, to work, to grow and to be nurtured in the performing arts.
Feb 13, 2008 · The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was founded in New York City, New York during the summer of 1967, under the direction of actor Robert Hooks, actor, playwright, director Douglas Turner Ward, and producer, director Gerald Krone.
Dec 1, 2022 · In 1966, Douglas Turner Ward, Robert Hooks, and Gerald Krone began to work on their vision for a groundbreaking, inclusive space in the theatre: a permanent home where Black theatre artists could have agency over projects made for them, by them, and about them.
Jan 13, 2021 · The founders of Negro Ensemble Company: Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, and Gerald Krone. Ups, Downs, More Ups. Hooks and his partners got a great deal of flak about their name. It was the age of Black Power, and some thought this new organization should have Black in its name, not “Negro.”
