The Exonerated - October 07 - October 10, 2021
Out of the Box Theatre Company, Inc. (NYC)
Dedication
Arthur W. French
(photo by Bitten By A Zebra Photography)
Out of the Box Theatre Company (OotB) dedicates this production of The Exonerated to the memory of our beloved colleague Arthur W. French, who died on July 24, 2021.
A member of the original Negro Ensemble Company, Arthur directed for numerous companies and won an Audelco Award as Best Director for his production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Classical Theater of Harlem. His decades-long acting career included the Broadway production of Dividing the Estate and the Broadway revival and film version of The Trip to Bountiful. In 2015 he was honored with the Paul Robeson Award from Actors' Equity Association.
OotB was privileged to have Arthur direct our 2016 production of Deep Are the Roots and perform in our 2017 staged reading of Waiting in the Wings. He was slated to perform in this production of The Exonerated as well as our upcoming production of Five by Tenn: 5 Short Plays by Tennessee Williams. A dear man as well as a talented director and actor, Arthur is greatly missed by Out of the Box and the theater community at large.
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