“I don’t recall another opportunity in my life,” he said, “where I’ve been in a room with ten other Black men and been vulnerable, together and in service of art. “I said after rehearsals, if I never end up opening this play, if I never end up doing months of performances, I’ll be okay, because so much of the work we did in the room was transformational.” “This play has healed me,” Dyllón Burnside, who plays Love, told Variety before the show. But with this play, with what we’re doing, we have to change that.”įor the actors, served as much by “Thoughts of a Colored Man” as its audience, those changes in the rehearsal room are tangible and distinct. “Sometimes you have to show up, get your check, and go home or go back to your trailer. “As actors and creators, rooms like that normally don’t exist,” he continued. “What you see on the stage would not be possible if we didn’t create brotherhood in the rehearsal room.” He had a degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.“I asked everyone to lend their spirit to this show,” Scott told Variety. Over the past 20 years, he oversaw the development of several ventures, including BlueView Technologies, a manufacturer of small, high-frequency sonar systems, Entomo, a software developer and Remote Control Technology Inc, a manufacturer of wireless remote-control devices. He became the youngest jet transport rated pilot in the world when he obtained his DC-8 type/captain’s rating at the United Airlines jet training institute in 1981 at the age of 19. 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' is made up of related vignettes and set over the course of a single day in Brooklyn, where seven Black men discuss gentrification, violence, racial and sexual. Rush, 61, was the chief executive and founder of OceanGate, the company behind the mission to the Titanic.Īccording to the company website, Rush oversaw OceanGate’s financial and engineering strategies and provided the vision for development of 4,000-metre- (13,123ft) and 6,000-metre-capable crewed submersibles. He told Le Monde last year of the vast number of species of marine life living around the wreck, saying: “The Titanic is an oasis in an immense desert.” Stockton Rush “Some are interested in its construction, others in the history of immigration to the US, others are interested in the millionaires on board, the stars of the era.” Nargeolet, who had been based in Connecticut in the US for many years, has described the wreckage as a “time capsule” where life suddenly stopped, endlessly fascinating to so many people for different reasons. “For 10 minutes, there was no sound on the submarine.” He said he glimpsed it from inside his submarine, detected with sonar and lit by projectors and said he and the team were left speechless. In an interview with Le Parisien last year, he described the first time he saw the wreck, which lies in total darkness, covered with coral. In 1987 he was part of the team that brought up a series of objects from the wreckage. He had been studying the Titanic for 35 years and had been involved in several submarine expeditions to the wreckage and hundreds of hours of observation. Nargeolet was a 77-year-old former French navy commander known as “Mr Titanic”. Harding also went into space last year with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company. Harding made many trips to the south pole and, in 2016, accompanied the former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who became the oldest person to reach there, aged 86. He also previously worked with the Antarctic luxury tourism company White Desert to introduce the first regular business jet service to Antarctica. He was also a skydiver, was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation in 2022, and was a trustee of the Explorers Club. John Nacion/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press The Great White Way was darker on Christmas. Harding was an aviator, holding an airline transport pilot’s licence and business jet type ratings, including the Gulfstream G650. Decem8:02pm Updated 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' will not resume after its performing shows last week. He was a student at Cambridge and left with a degree in natural sciences and chemical engineering. His wife is called Linda, and he has two sons named Rory and Giles, as well as a stepdaughter named Lauren and a stepson, Brian Szasz. Harding, 58, was the chair of the private plane firm Action Aviation.
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