Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center presents Having Our Say

Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center presents

Hattie Winston and Emily Yancy

in a one-time-only dramatic play reading of

Emily Mann’s Having Our Say

Directed by Fay Hauser-Price

The reading is presented by Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center (LAICCC), African Grove Institute for the Arts (AGIA) and the Fountain Theatre in association with UCLA’s Beloved Community Initiative (BCI), and will launch LAICCC’s annual “Beloved Community Awareness Week” collaboration with UCLA BCI.

Having Our Say is writer / director Emily Mann’s stage adaptation of the book Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, written in 1993 by Sadie and Bessie Delany at the ages of 103 and 101 respectively in collaboration with Amy Hill Hearth.

(Hattie Winston, Emily Yancy, and Fay Hauser-Price)

About Hattie Winston

Hattie Winston (Bessie Delany) — actor, singer, Broadway and television veteran — was a founding actor of the Negro Ensemble Company. Her Broadway credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tap Dance Kid and The Me Nobody Knows. Off-Broadway she has earned Obie, Audelco Dramalogue Awards for shows such as Ntosake Shange’s A Photograph: Lovers in Motion and Kevin Arkadie’s Up the Mountain. Her many TV credits include Becker, for which she received an NAACP nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Nurse, The Soul Man and The Electric Company.  For the stage, she has written Black Nativity: A Life Story, and The Slave Narratives: A Mighty, Mighty People. She is a member of The Longwood Writers Workshop and a contributor to its anthology A Gathering of Voices, scheduled for publication in the summer of 2024.

About Emily Yancy

Emily Yancy (Sadie Delany) is a veteran performer of stage, screen and television, starring in Broadway productions such as Hello Dolly, Man of La Mancha and Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. She also has many regional theater credits, including several productions of Having Our Say, playing the younger sister, Bessie. Ms. Yancy has recently completed playing the mother of journalist Isabel Wilkerson in the highly acclaimed film Origin, which was written and directed by Ava DuVernay. Emily has made many television guest star appearances including How To Get Away with Murder, Criminal Minds and the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Ms. Yancy is pleased and honored to be creating Having Our Say with the wonderful Hattie Winston and Fay Hauser-Price, with whom she happily shares a long history.

About Fay Hauser-Price

Fay Hauser-Price (Director) has written and directed several productions for The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF), directed its 30th anniversary Gala, and was a host for its 2024 Festival. She wrote and produced the short films Where There’s Smoke… and 5150, and won two Telly Awards as director of the documentary Turning Barton Elementary. She was a Producer/Writer/Director on more than 25 reality/documentary TV shows including Red, Hot and Cool, starring Nancy Wilson, and produced Living with Soul on cable for TV One, earning a Vision Award nomination. Ms. Hauser-Price is currently producing the feature film Surfmen and the documentary Bethania and the Extraordinary Ordinary. As an actor, she appeared in Roots II as “Carrie Barden,” and played “Selena Wiley” for five years on The Young and the Restless, which won an Outstanding Cast Emmy. She can currently be seen in Bed and Breakfast on Tubi.com.

About Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center

Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center (LAICCC) was the nation’s first and most influential minority owned and operated multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts institution, arising “out of the ashes” of the 1965 Watts Rebellion.

Its founders— UCLA dance department pianist and composer C. Bernard Jackson and UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute faculty and staff member Dr. J. Alfred Cannon— envisioned that LAICCC would employ the performing and visual arts in healing the scars of the rebellion, improving mental health and increasing cross-cultural communications among Los Angeles’ many diverse ethnic communities.

LAICCC’s core philosophy of non-traditional and colorblind casting on both the creative and technical fronts has enabled thousands of previously excluded minority artists to pursue careers in the entertainment business. Its alumni encompass an unparalleled “who’s who” of actors, writers, producers, directors, choreographers, videographers, dancers, musicians and technical personnel whose influence continues to the present day. LAICCC is the first arts organization outside of New York selected to participate in the Entertainment Community Fund’s Performing Arts Legacy Project, for which it has begun documenting the career histories of various alumni.