Hattie Winston

After attending Howard University in Washington D.C., Winston moved to New York to become an actress. During the 1970s she had a role on the Emmy-award winning PBS-TV series The Electric Company. In the theater, she starred in the acclaimed Broadway play The Tap Dance Kid (1983). Her roles in To Take Up Arms and Up the Mountain earned her two Los Angeles Critics' Drama-Logue awards. She has received two Obie Awards, and an Audelco Award for her contributions to the world of theater. In addition to many roles ion television and in film, she revived Langston Hughes' Black Nativity off-Broadway and has worked as an independent producer and director.