Forbes Named Apollo Exec. Producer
Kamilah Forbes has been named executive producer of The Apollo Theater in New York City.
Photo: AP Photo
The marquee at the Apollo Theater displays a tribute to the late entertainer and civil rights activist Lena Horne.
She will take over her new duties in September. Forbes is the director, producer and co-founder of a New York-based nonprofit called the Hi-ARTS/Hip Hop Theater Festival.
She also has served as producer for seven seasons of HBO’s “DEF Poetry Jam” and the recent live television show “The Wiz.” She was associate director of the Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.”
Forbes succeeds Mikki Shepard, who was Apollo’s executive producer for 10 years.
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