Douglas Turner Ward, Actor and Co-Founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, Dies at 90

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Douglas Turner Ward, the director, actor and playwright who co-founded the landmark, influential Off Broadway Black theater group the Negro Ensemble Company, died Saturday, Feb. 20, at his home in New York City. He was 90.

Douglas Turner Ward was an actor, playwright, and director who co-founded New York’s Negro Ensemble Company.Ward began his acting career in the 1950s, appearing in stage productions including “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway.

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