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August 2, 2009
Congrats to 2009 National Black Theatre Festival Award Recipients Andre De Shields and Woodie King Jr.
(Lia Chang and Andre De Shields) 
Andre De Shields will receive a 'Living Legend' Award and New Federal Theatre producer Woodie King, Jr. will receive
the Sidney Poitier Lifelong Achievement Award at the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, NC,
on August 3.
The National Black Theatre Festival® (NBTF) is the international outreach program of the North Carolina
Black Repertory Company, founded by the late Larry Leon Hamlin in 1979. The Festival, which runs from August 3 -8 this year,
was also founded by Hamlin and has been held biennially since 1989. 
(Woodie King Jr., Lia Chang and Hunter Canning)
My first experience with the Festival was in 1991, when Woodie
King, Jr., the founder and producing director of New Federal Theatre, brought Jerome Preston Bates, Iris Little, Denise Burse,
Lorey Hayes and myself to Winston-Salem to do a reading of Hayes’ Powerplay.
Click here for the full list of honorees.
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| Andre De Shields in Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance © Lia Chang |
Click here for my interview with Andre.
Click here for MINE EYES production photos.
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Lia Chang is an
actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist. Lia’s portraits and
performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV
Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com,
Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and
Washington Post. A former syndicated
arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about
culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and her Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog. As a photographer and videographer, Lia is frequently tapped to collaborate with artists, organizations
and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries
in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert
Goulet and Barbara Eden.
 LaMaMa e.t.c. presents Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner’s CALIGULA MAXIMUS, a project with Hammerstein
& Weiner, LLC, Christopher McElroen, Alfred Preisser and Kingsize, USA, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre,
March 12-April 10. Click here to read about the show. Join CALIGULA MAXIMUS on Facebook and Twitter.
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