As a Black woman, she blazed a path Off Broadway with an intuitive grasp of “how a story should be told, particularly a Black story,” Giancarlo Esposito said.
Source: New York Times
Shauneille Perry Ryder, Pioneering Theater Director, Dies at 92
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