"Live From the Audience," presented by Hattiloo Theatre, is a once-a-month video series with the latest in Black theater news and conversations with Black theater professionals.
This month on Live From the Audience we are having a chat with Sade Lythcott and Johnathan McCory from the National Black Theatre in New York City.
To give you a brief history of the NBT and our amazing guests:
The National Black Theatre (NBT) was founded in 1968 by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, an award-winning performer, director, visionary entrepreneur, and champion of the Black Arts Movement. NBT has broken ground as the country’s first revenue-generating Black art complex, as the longest-running Black theater in New York City, as acquisitor of the largest collection of Nigerian New Sacred Art in the Western Hemisphere, and as one of the oldest theaters founded and consistently operated by a woman of color in the nation. NBT is now envisioned as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower, and inform national consciousness around social justice issues that impact our communities. NBT is an AEA Equity house and a member of Theatre Communications Group, A.R.T./New York, Harlem Arts Alliance, and the Coalition of Theatres of Color. Under the current leadership of Chief Executive Officer Sade Lythcott, daughter of its founder Dr. Teer, and Executive Artistic Director Jonathan McCrory, NBT remains firm in its core mission to be the premier producer of transformative theatre — theatre that enhances African American cultural identity by telling authentic, autonomous, multifaceted stories of the Black experience.
Sade Lythcott Bio:
Sade Lythcott is a famous advocate for African-American culture in New York and the daughter of Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, who founded the National Black Theater (NBT). Sade was appointed CEO of the NBT and co-chair of the Coalitions of Theaters of Color after her mother's passing in 2008. Sade, a resident of Harlem, New York, holds a BA in art history from New York University. She performed as Gail in Ron Milner's Urban Transition: Loose Blossom at the New Federal Theater, directed by Woodie King, Jr., and as Dorothy Dandridge in Dorothy Dandridge: Before, After, & Now, directed by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, among other roles, before joining the NBT family. In 2012, she wrote and produced the highly-acclaimed musical A Time To Love, garnering 3 AUDELCO nominations and the Key to Harlem for her excellence in the Arts. Sade is also a clothing designer, costume designer, and fashion stylist, with clients including Beyonce Knowles, Lenny Kravitz, Katie Holmes, Jamie Fox and Mos Def. Her acclaimed celebrity swimwear line, Lunazul Swimwear, has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle, and Sports Illustrated magazine.
Johnathan McCory Bio:
Since 2012, Jonathan McCrory has served as artistic director of the National Black Theatre. He is a Harlem-based artist who has won an Obie Award and been nominated for an Audelco. He has had a successful career in acting, producing, and directing. He attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and received a BA in acting and Africana studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has helmed many high-profile plays and concerts, such as Iron John, How the Light Gets In, Dead and Breathing, HandsUp, Hope Speaks, Blacken The Bubble, Final Laugh Into Your Slumber, and Klook.
McCrory is a distinguished leader who has won praise for his dedication to equity and leadership. He has been a Hemispheric Institute alumni, a published journalist, an American Express Leadership Academy graduate, and a founding member of ArtEquity, Harlem 9, and the Next Generation National Network.
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