Facing Time with Lynne Childress
It seems to me like Lynne and I go back way further than we actually do. We got along so well when we did meet that when I tried to remember our meeting, I was off by a few years. Our story begins at the Folger Shakespeare Library where I was at first a teaching artist for their Shakespeare Steps Out in school residency program. I would eventually become the Elementary Education Coordinator running the aforementioned program. Lynne at that time came in approximately once a year to portray our Mistress of the Revels at the Annual Children’s Shakespeare Festival and worked as a teaching artist with our high school residency program, but had also been the EEC at the Folger prior to my predecessor’s tenure. This position actually cycled through four black women on the DC theatre scene at the time. One playwright who I’d worked with at the Smithsonian and who’s show I would later appear in under the direction of my good friend who would also later work with me at the Folger. Anothe