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During the 1972-73 season, the resident company was disbanded, staff was cut, workshops were cancelled, and salaries were deferred. The decision was made to produce only one new play per year. The play chosen that year was The River Niger by Joseph A. Walker.
In the 1972-73 season the resident company was disbanded, staff was cut back, training programs canceled, and salaries deferred. The decision was made to produce only one new play a year. Fortunately, the first play chosen was “The River Niger”, by Joe Walker.
Dec 1, 2022 · Though critically acclaimed and raising some of the most trailblazing questions of its time, the Negro Ensemble Company ran into a number of economic troubles and had to disband its resident company during the 1972-1973 season. This led to the difficult decision of downsizing to only one new play produced per year.
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. From its beginning, NEC was criticized for its integrated administration (Krone was white), its grant from the Ford ...
Jan 13, 2021 · The goals of the grant were to found a Black repertory company with social themes, which would expand opportunities for experienced Black theatre artists and to help train new ones. The Negro Ensemble Company officially began in 1967, with its home at the St. Mark’s Theater.
Sep 3, 2008 · THE Negro Ensemble Company was once a powerhouse of black theater talent, a creative home to Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Samuel L. Jackson. But it had some years that even its most...
Feb 23, 2018 · In 1965, playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer/actor Robert Hooks and theater manager Gerald Krone conceived The Negro Ensemble Company. The company officially opened in 1967.
