Tag: stage

Written by Alan King

New Mini-Doc on a Theater Pioneer

I’m grateful to Teri Cross Davis for bringing me on what started as an oral history project through Cave Canem to preserve and share the legacy of the great Jennifer L. Nelson. For those who don’t know, Jennifer is a two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner who empowered people in the margins and transformed a coalition of […]

Written by Alan King

Making a Difference in Congress Heights

Full disclosure: I’m the senior program director for the DC Creative Writing Workshop. The article below features the story of one of our high school students who takes part in the writing club. I thought his story was worth sharing here. Thinking of where he would’ve ended up without the DC Creative Writing Workshop’s after-school […]