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 Among
the many prizes Ms. Maharry will receive
is a stage reading of her script, Tough
Like Wearing Dreadlocks, as the opening
night event of the African American Film
Marketplace. The reading will be directed
by world class director, author, and actor
Ted Lange.
The reading
will be held at Raleigh Studios Thursday,
November 10 at 7pm. (5300 Melrose Ave. Hollywood,
CA - enter at the Van Ness gate)
Tough Like
Wearing Dreadlocks tells the story of Angela
Davis, a young women of mixed heritage (black
mother and white father) who lived her life
"on the fence" in terms of her
racial identity until she was denied entrance
into Harvard University. Convinced it was
due to her being part black and her mother
an ex Black Panther, she enrolled in a Black
University and led a black lifestyle. Life
in black was smooth and satisfying until
she fell in love with Chad, a white aristocrat.
What is she to do? How can she be true to
her new found negritude and continue this
relationship?
TED LANGE
“The duty of the Artist is to find
his muse then let her rip.”
TED LANGE certainly exemplifies the Renaissance
Man Theatre Award that he received from
the NAACP in Los Angeles and the Heroes
and Legends HAL Lifetime Achievement Award.
A prolific actor of stage and screen, director,
author, and educator comprise the talents
that have created a revered career and worldwide
recognition.
An award
winning theatrical director, Lange received
the Artistic Director Achievement Award,
as Director of an Original Play for his
comedy Lemon Meringue Façade and
the Dramalogue Award for outstanding directing
of The Visit. Lange also received the Oakland
Ensemble Theatre’s Paul Robeson Award
and the James Cagney Directing Fellow Scholarship
Award from the American Film Institute.
Other highlights from his stage directing
include: an interracial Hamlet starring
Glynn Turman, an avant-garde version of
Richard III, Driving Miss Daisy, a one man
show- Big Daddy’s Barbecue starring
Jeff Wayne and The Heart of Biddy Mason,
A jazz musical which he co- wrote with noted
Jazz musician Gerald Trottman. Honored to
be named a mentee of James Burrows, Lange’s
film directing career includes: Eve, Dharma
and Greg, Moesha, Love Boat: The Next Wave,
In the House. His directing expertise also
encompasses a pilot he co-created for NBC,
Big Daddy’s Barbecue.
A graduate
of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic
Arts, Lange has written seventeen plays
and garnered multiple theatrical awards.
Behind the Mask – An Evening with
Paul Laurence Dunbar is Lange’s own
one-man show, touring thus far to sold-out
houses at Ohio State University and San
Jose State. Four Queens – No Trump
played to rave reviews in Los Angeles, Cleveland,
Omaha, Chicago and won NAACP Best Play –
1997. Lange was bestowed The Best Actor
2001 by the NAACP for his work in Louie
and Ophelia. His passion for Shakespeare
has led to the roles of Petruchio in Taming
of the Shrew, Bottom in Midsummer’s
Night Dream, and leads in MacBeth, King
Henry VI, and Romeo and Juliet. Other credits
include Othello, in which he directed and
starred in the stage version at the Inner
City Cultural Center.
As a star
of the television classic The Love Boat,
Lange’s ten seasons as Isaac Washington
earned him global recognition. His television
acting career also includes That’s
My Mama, Mr. T and Tina, and guest appearances
on Evening Shade, Half and Half, Family
Matters, In the Heat of the Night, and The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Finalist
Stacy
Pyles (Sunset Cove)
Runner-Up’s
Angela
Gardner (The Word Love Changes Things)
Al White (Bass Reeves: Deputy U.S. Marshall
- The Dead Line)
Richard Kevin Stith (Unthinkable)
Rene Rawls (Homecoming Queen)
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