Festival Sessions:
Festival Kick Off and Performances on May 19
In-Person MAKE Session on May 20
Hybrid GATHER Session on May 20
Gregory Ford
Gregory Ford has been exploring theater in the DMV since the 1970s. In the 1980s he worked at numerous small theaters in the area, most notably with Off the Circle Theater Company performing musical revues at DC Space under the direction of Fred Lee. He was a member of Station to Station, a group of AfrAmerican men who –influenced by The Last Poets, as well as gay poets Chasen Gaver and Essex Hemphill - did “performance poetry”. In the 1990s he became a company member of DC Playback Theater under the direction of psychodramatist Jeffrey Yates. Gregory formed Positive Image Performance Project, a company of AfrAmerican men who performed Playback Theater at AIDS retreats during this time under the auspices of Us Helping Us, an AIDS services organization that focused on supporting Black men living with/or affected by AIDS. He is a clinical practitioner of psychodrama.
