One-Woman Show on Maya Angelou Coming to Princeton April 25

Cecelia B. Hodges presents her one-woman show “Memories of Maya,” at the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church (124 Witherspoon Street) in Princeton on Saturday, April 25, 5 p.m.

Her show celebrates the wisdom of poet Maya Angelou through poetry and prose.

Admission is free and open to the public.

“This hour performance honors Maya Angelou for a lifetime of inspiring poetry and prose,” Hodges said.

Hodges is a well-known professor, actor, producer and writer in the Princeton community. She was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art at Douglass College of Rutgers University.

At Rutgers, she founded and directed the Africa, Afro-American Studies Program and BAG (Black Arts Group).

At Princeton University, she offered courses in Oral Interpretation and initiated the courses “Five Black Writers” and “Black Drama” in the English Department.

Her theatre experience includes the Theatre Guild of New Jersey’s production of “A Tea with Zora and Marjorie”, the Players Company’s “A Lovesong for Miss Lydia”, “Flyin’ West” with BAC|Drama at Princeton University, “A Lesson Before Dying” with the Bridge Players Theatre, several Ibsen plays with the Penthouse Dance and Drama Theatre, and, at present, performances with On Stage of McCarter Theatre.

Hodges also performed in “Readings Over Coffee” at the Princeton Public Library for several years and introduced an annual program on the life of Paul Robeson. She is the founder-director of the Witherspoon/People’s Verse Speaking Choir and an Elder at Witherspoon Church.

The attached image was provided by Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church.