Hattie Winston

In 1990, with the help of Phylicia Rashad of I Robinson (1984) fame, and James Stovall, Winston and her husband, composer Harold Wheeler adapted Langston Hughes "Black Nativity" at the Master Theater in New York. The off-Broadway production, entitled "Nativity: A Life Story", won five New York Audelco Awards, including Best Director for Stovall and Winston, and Best Musical for the 1990-91 season.

I feel it is vital to understand your own culture because the history that you are defines, in a great sense, who you can be in the present time. I find that so very often, as an African-American woman, who I am is being defined by other people rather than myself.