Anne’s second play, You Shouldn’t Have Told, brought her to the attention of Samuel French Inc., and has since been published. She is the first and only black female recipient of four (4) Jean Dalrymple Awards in New York City and an AUDELCO nominee. For: BEST PLAYWRIGHT for a Drama, in 2000 for You Shouldn’t Have Told; BEST Comedy in 2004 for Four Men on a Couch; BEST play from Another Medium for her breakout work, John Milton’s classic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ adapted to The Fall From Grace; and a 1997 AUDELCO nomination for BEST Drama, You Shouldn’t Have Told. In 1997, Anne received the 10th Anniversary Scriptwriter Award from The African American Women in Cinema for The Colored Garden. In 2011, she received her fourth Jean Dalrymple Award for BEST drama, A Lesson in Blood. She is a former resident playwright at The African Globe Theatre in Newark, NJ. Looking For Love in Darkness was her first stage play about a family coping with teenage AIDS, ran fourteen (14) weeks at the ATA in NYC. The celebrated You Shouldn’t Have Told, produced by Shining Star Productions, Executive Producer, Philip Rose, had a three (3) year run that began at the ATA, and then to The Studio Theatre and to Playwrights Horizon’s main stage to receive rave reviews from THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORK POST, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK AMSTERDAM, THE NEW YORK BEACON, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, TIMEOUT, SISTA TALK, and IN THEATRE Magazine. Her work has been seen in the Performing Arts Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio and the African Globe Performance Center, Newark, New Jersey to sold-out performances, rave reviews, and was selected by the N.J. Star Ledger as one of ten (10) best plays in the state of New Jersey, 2003. Her work Blood Trilogy, a three (3)-play period piece includes A Lesson in Blood, A Long Way From Home, and Home is Sweet Sorrow, opened to rave reviews. Her play Resurrection debuted at the ATA in February of 2020.

Ms. D has once again returned to join the Shining Star Productions’ latest play Four Men On A Couch, but as the Stage Manager. She has performed as Sadie in the Shining Star Productions’ Resurrection. Currently she will be performing in the Crystal Image Performing Arts Co. My Mamma The Super Action Hero and has performed in The Buffalo Hero: The Wayne Miner Story.

Paul Maurizio is an actor in New York City from upstate Utica. He has had the pleasure of working stage crew on productions here at the ATA (About That Letter and Black & White City Blues). Paul performed most recently in stage productions, The Five Year Reunion (The Secret Theatre) and Photos of Mimon (SOOP Theatre Company).

A Brooklyn native with an Education background Cidney is relatively new but passionate about theater. We are happy to have her on board and wish her much success on whatever path she chooses.

Liam is a long time builder of theatre in NYC, both on and offstage. Most recently he has been on the production team for Negro Ensemble Company’s Day of Absence, Unentitled and Zooman and the Sign plus New Federal Theatre’s Telling Tales Out of School and Gong Lum’s Legacy. He has also worked with the DreamUp Festival at Theater For The New City, Castillo Theatre, Surati for Performing Arts and Crystal Image Performing Arts. Liam has performed at BAM, Lincoln Center and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

James is the founder of ATA and has produced the works of over 990 new Playwrights. As a Writer he's a recipient of the John Dos Pasos Creative Writing Award. As a director, he won the T.O.R award for Best Director, for the off-Broadway play The Holy Junkie by John Quinn. He also won the "Jean Dalrymple" Award for the Best Director of the play Blood Money, starring Dan Lauria, and he directed Celeste Holm on Broadway in Salute to Clinton. In addition, he directed Harvey Keitel in The Funeral at the Actors Studio, and in his own play, My Father's House. He is a member of the Actors Studio Director/ Playwright Unit and worked with Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman.

ATC is helmed by Jessica Jennings and was created to help theaters and artists with growth and development. ATC has created marketing and ticket platforms for nearly 50 shows in NYC; has helmed the Archive Project for the ATA; has helped secure grant awards for clients. ATC is your go-to for connections in NYC indie theatre scene, Audition Coaching, Stage Direction, Production Management, Dramaturgy, Budgets and Grant Writing. [email protected]

JMGC is creating visibility for independent theater, film, music, and literature has been the battle-cry of this boutique promotion and production firm for more than 20 years. Through a diverse internal multi-media platform, this communications organization is able to supply guaranteed coverage to hundreds of emerging artists and their productions while growing its external network of promotional sites and groups as well as producing events for the purpose of promotion and marketing to industry and generalized audiences. JMGC has clients on and off-Broadway, in film and television, across the country and around the world. [email protected]

Joe has been working in professional technical theater for over 20 years all over NYC. He's a House Tech at Off-Broadway’s ART/NY Theatres and freelances for theater and events tech with dozens of clients, working in both electrics and sound. When not behind the scenes, he is a fight choreographer and actor combatant, founding and producing a nascent theatrical fight ensemble here in NYC.