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Douglas Turner Ward Dies: Co-Founder Of Pioneering Negro Ensemble Company Was 90 by Greg Evans

Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his home in New York City. He was 90. His death was announced by his wife Diana Ward. Ward had already begun a solid New York stage acting […]

SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM on February 23, 2021

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