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Doris A. M. Thomas (Founder/Company Director) oversees the artistic, management and fiscal stability of Serenity Players, Inc. She assumes overall authority and final approval on plays, artists, finances and along with the Executive Director meet with potential funders, attends workshops and meetings, solve routine problems; and serve as troubleshooter on contracts under negotiation, report to the board on all matters relating to board recruitment and company operations. Ms. Thomas has received many awards and accolades throughout her career. In 1992, she won the title of Ms. DC Senior. She performs her one-woman show before many senior programs around the MetropolitanWashington, DC community and has appeared not only in many theatrical roles with Serenity Players but MetroStage (Alexandria, VA) in their production of Sophocles' Electra and Woolly Mammoth Theatre/Serenity Players production and collaboration of The Other River. As playwright, she wrote the play The Judgment Review. In 2000, Ms. Thomas received the Mayors Arts Awards nomination for Excellence to Services in the Arts and Unsung Hero in the Arts Achievement Award from the Tuskegee Alumni Club, Inc. In 2002, the National Visionary Leadership Project - a program designed to recognize visionaries of 70+ years of age who have made a major contribution in their field and in the African American community, chose Doris as a Visionary Elder. In 2006, she released her poem I Am Your Spirit for the production of Harriet.
Gertrude J. Saleh (Executive Director) is the fundraising and development director of Serenity Players, Inc. She solicits local government, foundation, corporation and other means of assistance and support and develops projects and programs consistent with the company's mission, purpose and performance season. She conducts the day-to-day administrative duties for the company. She has thirty years of Federal service from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities where she received two Distinguished Service Awards. She has held several consulting positions with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Education Program, National Gallery for the Arts Education Program, and the Maryland Council on the Arts and Humanities. She is currently the Ward 7 Arts Commissioner for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Co-convener on the Arts Commission Advisory Panels. She is on the Board of the Ward 7 Arts Collaborative and is a volunteer usher for Arena Stage. Contact Gertrude J. Saleh