Nov. 8, 2007 – The Disability Rights Center of the Virgin Islands, in celebration of 30 years of service to the disability community, will host an award ceremony honoring members of the legal community and local disability-rights activists. The event will feature renowned stage actor, Vinie Burrows, who will showcase her latest production.
The production is entitled “Sunlight and Shadows – a Dramatic Program of Four Vignettes on Disabilities,” which will premier at 6 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 9, at the St. George Botanical Garden, Frederiksted.
“I use my art to illuminate the human condition,” she says. She began her theatre career as a child actress on Broadway with Helen Hays. During the course of her career Burrows has appeared in theatre productions sponsored at more than 6,000 colleges, theatres, and other venues in the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, Germany, Japan, Africa and most recently the Russian Federation. She has worked with Mary Martin, Ossie Davis, Lou Gossett, James Earl Jones, Ben Gazzara, Cicely Tyson and Eartha Kitt, among others.
Actors Equity Association gave her their coveted Paul Robeson Award and the National Black Theatre Festival designated Vinie Burrows a “Living Legend.”
The actress presently serves as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Women’s International Democratic Federation. She also serves as president emerita of the Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO) Committee on Southern Africa.
