Interviewer
Dorothy Phaire is a novelist, playwright, educator and founder of the
Heralds of Hope Theater Company.  She teaches full-time in the English Department at the University of the District of Columbia and is also an adjunct professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.  Thank you for inviting me to your home.  I’d like to start out by asking you about your theater company’s mission and purpose.

DP
The Heralds of Hope Theater Company’s mission is to promote, mentor, and provide a platform of artistic expression for aspiring actors and technicians of all ages.  Through theatre our aim is to promote community outreach, awareness of important social concerns, and dialogue to bring about change or solutions.  My personal goal is to write and produce values-based plays that depict contemporary real life issues and universal themes.