Our Founder
Mrs. 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.
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