Dorothy Prince

actress, educator

Dorothy Prince is the founder of Sojourns, an enterprise designed to bring the lives of outstanding African American women to students and community organizations across the country. For more than 20 years she has been teaching, directing, and performing throughout the New England area. Prince began developing historical monologues in 1995, when she appeared as Zora Neale Hurston in Tulsa Oklahoma. Since then, she has performed as Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Phillis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Frances E.W. Harper.