Whats is Ujima Theatre Company?

Ujima Theatre Company operates as a collective membership organization made up of actors, theatre technicians, theatre arts administrators, choreographers, playwrights, teachers, musicians, and vocalists.

For nearly 50 years Ujima has been a leader in our community serving as a resource to persons, community agencies, and institutions serving non-violence, cultural diversity, at-risk youth and positive values necessary for the development of the community.

“Ujima Company is a vision of mine. It’s the end result of several years of wanting to do serious theatre with a group of seriously committed actors and actresses…in training to achieve a professional status which allows us then to do professional theatre. We don’t have professional theatre of a Black nature in Buffalo…and that is my goal. Our commitment is to theatre that is Black in nature, first and foremost, theatre that is generated within the group.”

~ Lorna C. Hill 1979