Slater Vance, son of actress Angela Bassett , has revived the Black student theater group his mother founded at Yale University in 1979. The group was first known as the Heritage Theater Ensemble and stopped operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yale Daily News reported. Vance, a member of Yale’s class of 2028, relaunched it in August as the Heritage Production Company. He and classmate Chin Onwu serve as co-presidents. Bassett earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1980 and her MFA from its drama school in 1983. The ensemble she started was the university’s first Black student theater group. According to Vance, she created it because at the time “there were no Black roles, even in the Geffen School of Drama.” Angela Bassett’s son Slater Vance has revived Yale’s first Black student theater group, originally founded by his mother 🎭 “She originally created this space because when she was here, there were no Black roles, even in the Geffen School of Drama.” 🔗...

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