EDGAR J. SHOCKLEY Founder & CEO
Edgar J. Shockley III decided to be a "writer" when he was just a child. This is why BESSIE SMITH:EMPRESS OF THE BLUES won the best director, actress and theater on 1981 (Audelco Award) when he was only twenty-two years young.....Most of America's important Black and Mexican Actors were still in New York. (There were not many works for them in Hollywood films on the 1970's ) This got him to meet all of the best actors either with plays in New Frank Silvera's Writing Workshop or in forty different jobs. . Phillip Hayes Dean (author of "Paul Robeson") said "He'll never be good unless he leaves and learns the world..." so Chicago two years Little Miss Dreamer:Bessie Smith. (a two hour long play), Seattle (Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry - book by Mildred D. Taylor ), Philadelphia (Bobos co-author James McBride), Washington DC (The Oracle), North Carolina (A Stranger On The Bus), Ireland as a director (The Emperor Jones - by Eugene O'Neil ) , actor (The Oz), Film (Stone Mansion - director Jan Johnson-Goldberger), books (Notes From A Practicing Writer - Hope Publications), aikido/jo/bokken/iaido (Aikido of Philadelphia) . When I asked why he works so many thing.. .
"No one will ever ask you mountains which you did not climb." ~ Edgar J. Shockley
A Nite In The Life Of Bessie Smith (YouthPLAYS) -Chi., Seattle, Balt., Texas Phila.
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director/actor Lary Moten/Ed Shockley writer: Ed Shockley Film/Television/Radio-Play Stone Mansion director Jan Johnson-Goldberger Badman director Tony Vinto Outlaw director Jan Johnson-Goldberger The Corsair director Carl Clay The Art Of Peace (Tao & Wellness) Holiday Tales director Edgar J. Shockley III Unsung Heroes (Pop Edwards) (The Last Stand Of Man) director Richard Cummings |