Vinnette Carroll
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Vinnette Justine Carroll (born March 11, 1922 in New York City; died November 5, 2002 in Lauderhill, Florida) was the first African American woman to direct on Broadway.
Her family moved to Jamaica when she was three and she spent much of her childhood there. Later she returned to New York and received her MA from New York University in 1946. Later she did her doctoral work in psychology at Columbia University and for a time worked as a clinical psychologist.[1]
She went into acting soon after that and made her Broadway debut in 1957. In 1964 she won an Emmy Award for Beyond The Blues, which dramatized the works of Black poets. In 1972 she became the first African American woman to direct on Broadway. She also founded the Urban Arts Corps.[2]
She died of heart disease and diabetes at age 80.
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- Vinnette Justine Carroll-The exact same woman.
