Bios
Robbie McCauley|1942-2021
1994 bio
Robbie has worked ln New York as an actor, director, performance artist and writer for several decades. She appeared in the original Broadway cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf as well as a number of memorable Off-Broadway productions, including works by Lanford Wilson and Adrienne Kennedy at Cafe Cino and the New York Shakespeare Festival. In 1979, she began her performance theater work, collaborating with composer Ed Montgomery on The History of the Universe According to Those Who’ve Had to Live It and other pieces. In the mid-l980s, she started a series of works in which 19th-century events in her family serve as metaphors for the African American experience of surviving racism. For one of these, Sally’s Rape, she received a 1992 OBIE Award (Best New Play) and a 1990-91 Bessie Award (Creative Achievement). A frequent collaborator with other performance artists, Robbie is a member of the performance trio "Thought Music" with Laurie Carlos and Jessica Hagedorn and has also recently appeared ln works by Fred Holland, Shu Lea Cheang and Urban Bush Women. Special thanks to Jessie Montgomery. This performance ls dedicated to Tamu Ellington Best.
Robbie McCauley died of congestive heart failure on May 20, 2021. For more information about her life and work, visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_McCauley and
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/obituaries/robbie-mccauley-dead.html
A book of Robbie's scripts, essays, and other writings is scheduled to be published in May 2024. For a more info about the book, visit:
https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Continues-McCauley-Scripts-Reflections/dp/1559369744
Gregory Binion|?-2009
1994 bio
Binion is a native Angelino and a product of the LA Left. He became involved in politics in 1966 when he joined the SNCC Youth Core. He is a former member of the Block Students Union at LA Southwest College, Che-Lumumba Club, Soledad Brother's Committee and the Angela Davis Committee. A graduate of the Theater Arts Academy of LA City College, Greg would like to dedicate his performance to all the freedom fighters around the world - sooner or later we will win.
Greg's 2009 obituary:
https://theneighborhoodnewsonline.net/history/memory/703-gregory-earl-binion
Dolores Chavez|1994 bio
Dolores was born and raised in East Los Angeles. She is the third daughter of proud parents. As a writer and performer, she ls currently developing a one-woman show telling the tales of her parents entitled Cleavage and Smokes.
For more information about Dolores since 1994, go to
https://www.linkedin.com/in/doloreschavez/
https://culturela.org/dca-staff-listing/dolores-chavez-taxco/
https://inner-cityarts.org/dolores-chavez-receives-stage-raws-queen-of-angels-award/
Tom Dennison|1994 bio
Dennison has designed lighting for artists Diamanda Galas, Ann Magnuson, Elia Arce and Ruben Martinez, among others. He directed Pico-Union at the late great Los Angeles Theater Center. He is the Performance/Video Coordinator at LACE {Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions).
Amentha Dymally|1994 bio
A native of Harlem, New York, Amentha is of Trinidadian and North Carolinian heritage. She has been active in theater for 30 years and recently received an award for Best Supportive Actress from the NAACP Theater Committee for her role as Sara in Neva's Tale. She made her debut as a performance artist in the Cal State LA, Ford Foundation-funded LA Talks. Her most recent TV appearance was the Columbia-TV sitcom 227 episode on the homeless. She ls represented by Showbiz Entertainment.
For more about Amentha, go to
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245906/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/amentha_dymally
Charley Hayward|1994 bio
Hayward has worked at La MaMa in New York with Ellen Stewart, at the Public Theater with Joseph Chaikin and writer Adrienne Kennedy, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater doing Chekov with Andrei Serban, and on Broadway with runaway children and composer Elizabeth Swados. He toured extensively in the 1970s throughout Europe and the Middle East doing Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and works of Bertolt Brecht. He relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and has been here ever since, working in television (Flash, Human Target, Alien Nation, Donato & Daughter) and film (Poison Ivy, Loving Lulu, The Passion of Martin). Making a living is necessary, though it is his work in various community arts and children's teaching programs (Los Angeles Festival, Young Audiences in New York City Public Schools) which feeds his soul - children's mental, social and physical heath is our future.
For more recent information about Charley, visit
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371720/
https://mubi.com/cast/charley-hayward
Lyvingston Holmes|1994 bio
Lyvingston is a native Californian and has chosen not to list her credits. and they are many…. She would like to dedicate her performance to “Kumasi" and "Crook" and all the brothers and sisters who have dedicated their lives to the struggle. Peace.
For more information about Lyvingston, go to
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391939/?ref_=nm_mv_close
https://latw.org/artist-public-profile/lyvingston-holmes
Wheaton James|1994 bio
-- Jesus Arango (25), Juan Bahena (20), Herbert Burgos (37), Oliver Beasley (27), Michael James Bryant (37), John Daniels Jr. (36), Darrell Harts (30), Arturo "smokey" Jimenez (19), Efrin Santos Lopez (18), Tracy Matberry (33), Julio Moran (17), Antony Netherly {21), Justice Hasan
Netherly (47), Louis Segura (27), Dominique Spears (3). Sonji Danese Taylor (27), Raymond Diaz Triana (?), Louis Watson (18), Terrance Williams (20)...
Jay Johnson|1994 bio
Johnson is an artist who has collaborated with Robbie McCauley in the past. He has initiated various independent video production projects designed to further grassroots political change: XchangeTV, FUEGO NUEVO and PUBLICART. In New York City, XchangeTV cablecast a weekly program from material produced primarily in Nicaragua and El Salvador. ln Mexico, FUEGO NUEVO produced two feature-length narratives about indigenous union struggles. In El Salvador, PUBLICART produces both commercial and political television campaigns. He is currently living in Los Angeles producing animations and visual effects for the film industry.
Gloria Jones Schultz|1994 bio
Gloria is a veteran of New York theater, having performed in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway plays under the name Lauren Jones. She ls the recipient of several awards including Theatre World, New York Drama Critics Poll, Tony nomination and Essence Magazine. Today, Gloria works behind the scenes in feature film and video as associate producer, producer, casting director and dialogue coach for such films as “Krush Groove,” “Cooley High,” “Earth, Wind & Fire in Concert,” “The Last Dragon” and “House Party.” She also is developing a miniseries for a major network. A mother of two grown sons. she ls thrilled to be working with her good friend Robbie McCauley.
For more information about Gloria, visit
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428632/
Joyce Maddox|1994 bio
Maddox studied theater at University of Miami. Her technical and stage manager credits include the touring company of Check Mates, Anna Deveare Smith’s project at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Festival and various projects for the city of Los Angeles Performing Arts Program.
Sister Somayah “Peaches” Moore-Kambui|1951-2008
1994 bio
A native Angelino, Somayah has been a musician since age 4, and is a graduate of Washington High School (where she was a Band Leader and involved in theater). She ls a veteran of the US Air Force (Vietnam era). She was a coordinator of the Block Panther Party free breakfast program and survived the "victory" shoot-out of '69. A mother of two and a grandmother, Somayah ls a liberation songstress/autoharpist and, over the last 20 years, has been a Sickle Cell activist and an advocate for
Medicine Marijuana. "You gauge the consciousness of a society by the music and artistic expression embraced by the people." (Sister Somayah)
For more information about Sister Somayah, go to
https://cannabisnow.com/sister-somayah-kambui-an-early-visionary-of-cannabis-equity/
Jeris Lee Poindexter|1994 bio
Jeris was last seen in the production of Lotto. He has appeared ln numerous TV shows and films. He is an LA Weekly award winner for a featured performance in a comedy and was nominated for an NAACP award as a supporting actor. He has also toured in James Graham Bronson's Willie and Ester with Bernadette Stanis of GoodTimes as Ester, which also played Off-Broadway in New York. He dedicates his performance to the brothers that aln't here.
For more recent information, go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeris_Lee_Poindexter
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688432/
Raquel Salinas|1994 bio
Raquel is an actress/performance artist who recently performed her one-woman show, Heal Your Own, as part of the "Fierce Tongue: Women of Fire" series at Highways. Last year, she received a Brody Fellowship Award and was thus able to evolve her concept into a one-hour
performance under the direction and dramaturgy of Olivia Chumace. The work portrays the abuse of women entrenched in the numerous cultural platitudes of a Latina's world. Raquel says, "LA reminds me of my family - there's a trauma, a coco, you put a band-aid over it, when the scar ls gone, no one talks about it. Business as usual."
Denise Uyehara|1994 bio
Uyehara ls a writer, performance artist and playwright who has performed her one-person piece Headless Turtleneck Relatives at Highways, the Inner City Cultural Center and the Japanese American National Museum in LA and at the ICA ln London. She has received Brody and Irvine Fellowships and her play, Hiro, opens this summer under an AT&T: On Stage Productions Grant. She thanks Robbie and the ensemble for thls experience and their ability to listen and teach.
For more recent information about Denise, go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Uyehara
Jane Zingale|1942-2021
1994 bio
Zingale holds an MFA in drawing and painting. She attended the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin and Yale School of Art & Architecture. Jane has been acting and performing nationally and internationally since 1977.
For updated information about Jane, go to
https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000378878/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81_BwqT0hg
