ACT's annual LGBTQ+ Theater Showcase in observance of DC Black Pride Weekend, Sunday, May 25, 2025
35 talented actors perform new, short, LGBTQ+ themed plays "Reader's Theater" style -- during a fun, informal showcase in celebration of this year's 2025 DC Black Pride Weekend.
For one low admission price: comic, dramatic, and romantic shorts are featured, in a casual, flexible, late afternoon/early evening, festival format -- during which audience members may arrive when they can, come & go as they need, and still sample an array of original, short theater works --according to their busy holiday schedules.
Our 2025 DC Black Pride Weekend Cast!
25th Anniversary - "Family Business"
Cast and crew for that first public reading.
25 years ago, in 1999, ACT presented the first public reading at the DCJCC Theater for DC Black Pride Weekend.
Naima Barakat/Stage Manager, Jarvis George, Raqi Arradondo, PZaz, Lynn Chavis, Ricardo Frederick Evans, Ya Ya Smith-Davis, Monte J. Wolfe, Ellie Hill, and Lajuan Frederick Martin.
Photo by Ron Price
NYHAAD 2024
Our Vision
National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD), observed annually on April 10th, is a day to educate the public about the impact of HIV and AIDS on young people.
The day also highlights the HIV prevention, treatment, and care campaigns of young people in the U.S.
ACT participated with a short video, "BREAK"
featuring ACT'ers, Abbey Asare-Bediako and "AJ" Johnson
Check out their first read-through, HERE