Our
Founder
Ms. Doris A.M. Thomas
Doris A.M. Thomas, born in Washington, DC wears many hats as the Founder
and Company Director of Serenity Players.
Crowned Ms. DC Senior in 1992, she performs at many senior centers throughout
the Washington, DC area. This phenomenal multi-talented extraordinary great
grandmother of ten is an actress/performer/dancer/writer/model and was the
producer/director of Serenity Players, Inc. 20th Anniversary celebration.
She also sews, paints, and does TaiChi, aerobics, and yoga at the Washington
Senior Wellness Center. Doris is also a former tap dancer with Taps & Company,
the Washington Senior Steppers and studied tap with William Garney. She sings
in the St. Francis Xavier Church choir. Ms. Thomas can be heard on her new
radio talk show, Senior Talk on WOL-1450 AM.
As a Serenity Players actress, her performances are many and include,The
Wiz of Utima, God’s Trombones, Pardon Me If I Cry, If the Drum Is A Woman
And The Drummer Is A Man, Damian Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, The Spirit Of
Principle, A Candle On The Table, Lepers,
Harriet, The Judgment Review (as Playwright) and her one woman’s show
The Will
To Live. Doris made her professional theatre company debut inApril/May
2005 in
Sophocles’ Electra presented by MetroStage, Alexandria, VA. In June 2006,
she
appeared in The Other River – a Woolly Mammoth and Serenity Players
collaboration. She adds to her credit as poet, her newly released poem I
Am
Your Spirit© in the February 2006 production of Harriet.
Doris has received many honors and awards for her involvement in community
theater. Among them are Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress; 1992 Special
Talent recognition in Atlantic City during the Miss Senior American Pageant,
a
nominee in 1993 and 2000 Mayors Arts Award for Excellence in Services to the
Arts; and Unsung Hero In The Arts Achievement Award (Year 2000) from the
Tuskegee Alumni Club, Inc. In 2001, she served as a Judge in the National
Pageant in Miss Senior America Pageant. In 2002, she was chosen as a
Visionary Elder by the National Visionary Leadership Project – a program
designed to recognize visionaries 70 years of age or older who have made a
major
contribution in their field and in the African American community.
