Voza Rivers 80th Birthday Celebration

VOZA RIVERS, founding member of Harlem’s New Heritage Repertory Theatre (“NHRT”), (est. 1964), is one of the country’s leading African American theater, music, and events producer, and documentary filmmaker. Voza has produced and/or co-produced theater, television projects, film festivals, and the historic HARLEM WEEK FESTIVAL now celebrating its 46th year anniversary. He has also produced tributes in Japan, South Africa, British Columbia, and the UK. Highlights include the TONY and GRAMMY nominated hit Broadway musical, “Sarafina!, by award-winning South African playwright Mbongeni Ngema, The OBIE award winning Woza Albert!; and the TONY nominated Asinamali! (also by Ngema) , as well as The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, (featuring leading Black actors from the Royal Court Theatre Company and National Theatre of Great Britain), Emergency and Through by the Night by AUDELCO AND OBIE award winning playwright and actor Daniel Beaty, Savior by international journalist/playwright Esther Armah, and the OBIE award winning play The Huey P. Newton Story at the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture in Harlem.