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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Douglas Turner Ward
Douglas Turner Ward
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| Other authors / contributors: | Ward, Douglas Turner, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 June 10.
Recorded New York, New York 2006 September 21.
Recorded New York, New York 2006 November 29.
Recorded New York, New York 2010 April 28.
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| Summary: | Playwright, actor, and director Douglas Turner Ward was born Roosevelt Ward, Jr. on May 5, 1930. Ward was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended Xavier Prep High School, graduating in 1946 at the age of sixteen. Ward attended Wilberforce University and the University of Michigan before moving to New York City at the age of nineteen. In New York, Ward decided to become a playwright and studied at the Paul Mann Workshop. In 1956, he began his off-Broadway career as an actor in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. In 1965, Ward, Robert Hooks, and Gerald Krone formed the Negro Ensemble Company. In 1967, the Negro Ensemble Company was officially opened with Ward serving as artistic director. Some of the company's notable productions include The River Niger and A Soldier's Play. Some notable actors who worked with the Negro Ensemble Company included Louis Gossett, Jr., Phylicia Rashad and Sherman Hemsley.
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