Zora Neale was also the author of numerous songs, plays, short stories and novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God, considered one of the great works of American literature. A luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale died in obscurity, her works out of print until 1985.
Alice Walker called Zora Neale Hurston a "Genius of the South" .
Please join Culture Park June 14th 2001 at Gallery X for a staged reading of RESEARCH.
A Play by Rebecca Schade
Directed by Patricia Thomas
Performed by Sylvia Ann Soares
Please join Culture Park
June 14th 2001 AHA! @
Gallery X 169 William Street
New Bedford, MA
2 performances @ 6 & 8 pm
>Free admission
SYLVIA ANN SOARES
as Zora Neale Hurston
CCRI ‘93/Brown ‘95. Recently appeared in The Sound and the Fury at Perishable Theatre playing Dilsey and Mrs. Compson simultaneously and the Narrator. Other credits: Session 9 (Film ‘01). American Playhouse: Three Sovereigns for Sarah (Tituba), Baretta, Kojak, Police Story, Good Times, Hardy Boys, Dr.‘s Hospital, Delvecchio & more
--- Public Theater (Black Terror); Imamu Baraka’s Slaveship; LA Shakespeare Festival (Lady Capulet), as an original member worked with Adrian Hall / Trinity Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum; founding member of Garrick Players (DC) performing mainstage/schools and State Department Tour/Germany, Brown Summer Theatre, Rites and Reasons &
___ Created: The Madame/Gentleman Caller in Woodie King, Jr’s Black Quartet; title role in Sister Son/ji (Negro Ensemble Company). National Tours: No Place To Be Somebody, The River Niger (NEC). Has played opposite Lou Gosset, Jr., Roger Mosely, Vanessa Redgrave and others.
Poet/activist. My work is inspired by / dedicated to / consecrated with the Spirit of my Angel / Goddess Mother Dorothy M. Soares who has Alzheimer’s. Through Providence she was placed in my care and is more than ever my Master Teacher.