African American Performing Arts Community Theatre

It was possibly the mid-summer of 1996 and I and another actress Margaret Joyner just finished work for the play, Ghost Stories of the Blacksmith Curse produced by the M Ensemble at African Heritage Cultural Center in Liberty City. We were both very frustrated with the lack of work that black actors were getting in Miami, Florida and how unfairly we were being treated as actors. Margaret and I took it upon ourselves to suit with one another and devise a way to form a theatre firm that could allow black actors a chance to work, learn and grow in theatre.