Photo Credit: Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times
Grad Acting alumni Pascale Armand ('99), Danai Gurira ('04) and MaYaa Boateng ('17) are all featured in The New York Times article "Daughters of African Immigrants Use the Stage to Tell of Two Worlds".
“It’s such a beautiful thing and an inspiring thing and a surreal thing to see a Ghanaian story on an American stage — I never even knew something like that would be possible,” said MaYaa Boateng, a 26-year-old child of Ghanaian immigrants from Maryland who graduated from N.Y.U.’s Graduate Acting program last year and is now developing her own solo show. Ms. Boateng said a visit by Ms. Gurira to her university “is one of the reasons why I picked up a pen the very first time,” and said seeing work by other women of African descent leaves her feeling that “we all have stories worth telling — they need to be spoken.”