Actors of the NEC

Actors of the NEC

We trained and presented a whole care of successful black theatre artists in all area s of the profession, designers, actors, directors, producers etc…Probably the most visible are the number of successful actors we produced. People like Denzel Washington, Ester Rolle, Rosalind Cash, Sherman Helmsley, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel Jackson and Phylicia Rashad to name just a few.

– Douglas Turner Ward – 2009

Denzel Washington

Phylicia Rashad

Barbara Montgomery

Glynn Turman

Samuel L. Jackson

Charles Brown

Rosalind Cash

Godfrey Cambridge

Moses Gunn

Clarice Taylor

Ethel Ayler

Cleavon Little

Laurence Fishburne

Sherman Hemsley