Featured plays in ‘In the Flesh’ (clockwise from top left): Antwain Cook-Foreman and Zukeh Freeman in’ Bad Date’ Abbey Asare-Bediako, Adrianne Foster, and Ashley Nicole Lyles in ‘A Visit to the Ladies Room’ Moses Princien and Ameirah Neal in ‘After Ours’ Gregory Ford and Larry Hull in ‘One Day in the Park.’ Sharpe is the founding artistic director of African-American Collective Theater (ACT), which celebrates its 30th anniversary with a return to live public performance on Sunday, May 29, 2022. That’s a question playwright Alan Sharpe gets asked a lot - one he also asks himself a lot - so it’s not surprising that he has accumulated more than a few answers. How can a Washington, DC, theater group exist for three decades, and yet practically no one has ever heard of them?
