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The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City-based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, with funding from the Ford Foundation.
Welcome to the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc website. Highlights this season include Lambs to Slaughter by Khalil Kain & the Emerging Playwrights Competition.
With money from the Ford Foundation and a home at the St. Marks Playhouse, the Negro Ensemble Company formed officially in 1967. Though the new company succeeded in attracting audiences from all walks of life, they ran into a number of political and economic difficulties.
Jan 13, 2021 · This first article tells the story of the Negro Ensemble Company, formed during and alongside the Civil Rights Movement. Future articles will explore some of the many Black Theatre organizations, leaders, performers, and work.
The mission of the Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC) is to provide African-American, African and Caribbean professional artists with an opportunity to learn, to work, to grow and to be nurtured in the performing arts.
Feb 13, 2008 · The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was founded in New York City, New York during the summer of 1967, under the direction of actor Robert Hooks, actor, playwright, director Douglas Turner Ward, and producer, director Gerald Krone. From its beginning, NEC was criticized for its integrated administration (Krone was white), its grant from ...
Feb 23, 2018 · Douglas Turner Ward, co-founder, Negro Ensemble Company. Today hundreds of artifacts from the company’s five decades are housed at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research...
