Poor-ducing Theatre & Film at Black Spectrum

As a child I always wanted to be a pilot but quickly dropped that idea when I learned pilots have to have 20/20 vision and can’t wear glasses. I knew I would never be a pilot with my eye sight. Yet the idea that in the theatre you can move at top speeds and roll in and out of the clouds of your mind and travel to places and meet people from every culture in the world without leaving the ground intrigued me. So in a funny kind of way I became a pilot of the theatre.

The theatre has given me more frequent flyer miles across the landscapes of human understanding in my community than Delta or American Airlines could have ever done. Experimenting with theater became my aircraft. From my visionary seat I could search the sky and bear witness to what is possible. My experience in helping to build a community theatre has been simply sublime!

Our first production went off very well, I remember everybody was dressed in black, but we were doing something different in 1970. We were talking about “Black Love” instead of “hate Whitey.”