CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Continuing her father's legacy with Common Ground Theatre, one of the longest-running Black theater companies in the U.S.

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Francine DeWitt-Haynes can’t be sure, but she suspects that her father was inspired to co-create what is now known as Common Ground Theatre after attending a play as a student at Columbia University in New York City. When the late Rufus DeWitt moved his family from Mobile, Ala., to San Diego, there wasn’t an organized theater company for Black San Diegans, so he and a friend started the Southeast Community Theatre in 1963, which changed its name to Common Ground Theatre in 2003.

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