2007-2008 Season Review

by Oni Faida Lampley
directed by Jennifer L. Nelson

Sweet Honey in the Rock vocalist and composer Ysaye M. Barnwell
WUSA Channel 9 news anchor J.C. Hayward
DC Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Barbara Lang

Washington Informer publisher Denise Rolark Barnes
Helen Hayes award-winning actress Jewell Robinson

Hosted by NBC4 news anchor Jim Vance

The notable guest cast read Lampley's award-winning play about five black teenage girls, who while at a slumber party become engaged in a book about African life called Nubian Journey.

The successful evening raised funds for outreach and theatre programming initiatives. Read the review of the performance in the Washington Informer.

Intimate Apparel

by Lynn Nottage

directed by Jennifer L. Nelson

Atlas Performing Arts Center

The talented cast included Kamillah Forbes (Chained), Jewell Robinson (The Oracle) and Deidra LaWan Starnes (Raisin in the Sun)

A woman discovers her passion in the face of overwhelming racial, economic and social pressures to submit to spinsterhood. In 1905 New York City, Esther's life as a lingerie maker for the rich is severely limited until she gives flight to the dream of love. The unexpected consequences break her heart but not her spirit.

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