Negro Ensemble Company records, 1967-1993.

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Negro Ensemble Company records, 1967-1993.

The records of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), 1967-1993 document the work of the most successful African-American theatrical company in the United States to date. In addition to information about the productions, the records also document the growth of the company through the development of its administrative structure and of the funding base that keeps a theatrical company alive. The collection is divided into three series, thirteen subseries, and eighteen sub-subseries.

180 linear. ft. (215 archival boxes, 4 flat boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6718895

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Rhone, Trevor D., 1940-2009

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McDonalds Literary Awards Contest.

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Krone, Gerald.

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Negro Ensemble Company

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The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was a black repertory company that presented works on social themes that were germane to black life and expanded opportunities for experienced black theatre artists. NEC was founded in 1967 by actor/playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor Robert Hooks and theatre administrator Gerald Krone, with a $434,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The company offered professional training to potential new talent and for a brief time had a training company for bo...

Lee, Leslie, 1952-

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Elder, Lonne III 1927-1996

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Williams, Samm-Art

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Samm-Art Williams, playwright. From the description of Brass birds don't sing: typescript, 1977. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122616182 ...

Walker, Joseph A., 1935-

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Walcott, Derek

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Derek Walcott is a St. Lucian poet and dramatist of international repute. He attended The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and lived for many years in Trinidad and Tobago, where he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. His literary output has won him many outstanding international awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. From the description of Derek Walcott Collection, 1957-1981. [1957-1981] (The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, S...

Denmark, Leon.

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Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982

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Audience Development Committee

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Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, 1944-2006

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Endesha Ida Mae Holland (August 29, 1944 – January 25, 2006) was an American scholar, playwright, and civil rights activist. She earned a BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Minnesota, where she helped start an African-American studies department....

Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-....

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Paul Carter Harrison, African American playwright, was born on March 1, 1936 in New York City, New York to Thelma Inez and Paul Randolph Harrison. In 1957, Harrison earned a B.A. in psychology from Indiana University, and after moving back to New York, earned a M.A. in psychology and phenomenology from the New School for Social Research in 1962. After spending several years in Europe, Harrison was hired as an assistant professor in theater arts at Howard University in 1968. He went on to teach t...

Dean, Phillip Hayes

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Carter, Steve, 1929-

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Fuller, Charles H., 1892-1947

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