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Ed Hall audio collection.
- Title
- Ed Hall audio collection.
- Author
- Hall, Ed, 1931-1991.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid for the collection
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Hall 1991-80 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Summary
- The collection consists of 4 audio recordings of interviews with Ed Hall, and actors Rose Weaver and Barbara Meck.
- Subjects
- Note
- Edward C. Hall (1931-1991), known as Ed Hall, was an African American actor of stage, screen, and television. He began his professional acting career in 1950 and performed primarily on Broadway. In 1965 he joined the Trinity Repertory Company (Trinity Rep), one of the most respected regional theaters in the US, as its first Black actor. He remained a member for twenty-six years, acting in more than eighty productions. Rose Weaver and Barbara Meek were also active members of Trinity Rep. The interviews are part of an oral history project on Trinity Rep that can be accessed at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts. George M. Goodwin, a specialist in oral history research, conducted the interviews. Hall's radio credits include the Philip Morris Playhouse. Some of the more well-known productions he acted in were: Raisin in the Sun, where he played the African student, Joseph Asagai, in the original 1959 Broadway production; No Time for Sergeants; The Death of Bessie Smith; Trumpets of the Lord; The Zulu and the Zayda; Joe Turner's Come and Gone; and the television show Separate But Equal, which aired in 1991. Hall died of cancer on July 30, 1991.
- Source (note)
- Marion Simon, Trinity Repertory Company
- Linking Entry (note)
- See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Ed Hall papers, 1944-1991. Sc MG 447. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Call Number
- Sc MIRS Hall 1991-80
- OCLC
- 1191843918
- Author
- Hall, Ed, 1931-1991.
- Title
- Ed Hall audio collection.
- Linking Entry
- See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Ed Hall papers, 1944-1991. Sc MG 447. Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Hall 1991-80