Ensemble Theatre records
This collection consists of the board activities of Ensemble Theatre, as well as its history.
In November of 1976, Houstonian George Hawkins founded The Black Ensemble Company, Houston's first African American professional theater, to provide a venue for Houston's talented Black actors, writers and artists to perform. When his company moved into its first home at 1010 Tuam Street in Houston, Hawkins dropped the word Black from the name, becoming simply The Ensemble. The first production performed at the new site was Surprise, Surprise...A... written and directed by Hawkins. In 1985, George Hawkins and his theater supporters rented a building at 3535 Main Street, Houston, and converted it into a theater.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the Ensemble Theatre records, MS 0533.
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