NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS

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Theater Arts: Actors, Writers, Singers, Dancers…

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Purlie Victorious

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Arts in Education

Production held at Rochelle Middle School

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PHILOSOPHY

We believe that in the sharing of our art, we create a better person, a better community and a more humane society.

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Our Mission

• To foster collaboration between professional and semiprofessional artists and other individuals to produce quality cultural events for our community.

• To provide community access to performance and educational opportunities in theater-related crafts and technology.

• To promote the importance of computer technology awareness in terms of the arts as well as training and accessibility to help bridge the digital divide within our community at large.

• To reflect the cultural diversity of the area and serve underserved populations.

• To entertain and enrich lives for a better community.

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Director of Development

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To foster collaboration between professional and semi-professional artists and other individuals to produce quality cultural events for our community.

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• To reflect the cultural diversity of the area and serve under-served populations.

To provide community access to performance and educational opportunities in theater-related crafts and technology

Background

Info

In 1993, Ronn Shedrick founded

New Voices/New Visions, in

Kinston, North Carolina where he held his first summer children theatre camp with productions of

Ossie Davis' "Purlie Victorious".

Since then, he has produced and/or directed plays ranging from

"Five on the Black Hand Side", "A

Raisin In The Sun" to "Driving Miss

Daisy.“

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GRANT FUNDING

PAST SUPPORT

CORPORATE SUPPORT PRODUCTION

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Felix Harvey

Foundation

North Carolina

Arts Council

Kinston Arts Council

Kinston Housing

Authority

Award

Artistic Merit

National

Endowment of the

Arts

Piggly Wiggly

Wachovia Bank

Five On The Black

Hand Side

Purlie Victorious

A Raisin In The Sun

Branch Bank & Trust

H.E. Beech, Realty

Kinston Free Press

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Former Major Buddy Rich

Former Mayor Johnnie Mosley

Former Director of Cultural

Affairs Yale University

Kim Goff-Crews

We Need Love

Driving Miss Daisy

Other Programing

Historical Celebration of

Gospel Music

AWARD

Artistic

Merit

Under Ronn’s artistic direction, NV/NV has received awards of artistic merit from the National

Endowment for the Arts through the North

Carolina Arts Council.

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A body of work:

Artistic Producer

T.V. Credits Stage Credits

• 227

• Tour of Duty

• NYPD

• Law and Order

• Another World

• New Jack City

(bit part)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre

NYC

If They Come Back, Henry

Fonda Theatre Los Angeles

Driving Miss Daisy, Joslyn

Players, Pasadena, CA

Professional collaboration includes work or association with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee,

Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Isaiah

Washington, Avery Brooks, Esther Rolle, Beah

Richards, Yolanda King, George C. Wolfe, Oprah

Winfrey, Dorian Harewood, Pat Boone, Telly

Savalas and the cast of Married With Children.

Joslyn Players 2002/2003 Season

From the Writer of “Cooley High”

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Manhattan Sunrise on location Brooklyn, NY

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Stage Craft & Design

NEW VOICES/NEW VISIONS

• Thanks for your support!

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