Im A Child Of The Civil Rights

Some Of The Most Amazing Stories Are Happening On The Global Scene. My Extraordinary Producing Partner, Joslyn Barnes, She's Just Virtually Changed My Life With The Way She Constructed This Company And How We Go About Telling The Stories We Want To Tell.

I Remember When Langston Hughes Used To Write A Column In Black Newspapers Around This Character Jesse B. Semple. He Always Used That As A Voice, Sometimes In Comic Ways, Of Having Everyday People's Voice Come Through This Common Folk Hero, Who Was An Ordinary Working Guy. He Would Talk About Anything From Police Brutality To The Korean War. Those Kinds Of Expression And Identification Are No Longer Prevalent In Our Popular Culture.

Whole Ideology Of Consumption Almost To The Point Of Religion. Whether It's The Consumption Of Entertainment Or The Consumption Around Buying Things, We're So Caught Up With Our Appetites That We Don't Have A Clear Distinction About What We Need And What We Just Want. Plus, The Decline Of Trade Unions Is A Factor. When You Have Powerful Unions, You Have A Working Class That Is Politicized.

My Theatrical Background Was In The Great Work Of The South African Playwright Athol Fugard.

I Try To Find Hope In Struggle And Resistance In Small Places As Much As I Can.