- Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1927) Stage Play: Bottomland. Musical comedy. Music by Clarence Williams. Book by Clarence Williams. Lyrics by Clarence Williams. Musical Director: Clarence Williams. Featuring songs with lyrics by Jo Trent, Chris Smith, Len Gray and Joe Jordan. Featuring songs by Donald Heywood, Spencer Williams and Gerald Williams. Directed by Clarence Williams and Aaron Gates. Princess Theatre: 27 Jun 1927- 13 Jun 1927 (19 performances). Cast: Dot Campbell (as "Chorus"), Raymond Campbell (as "Skinny"), Alice Carter (as "Chorus"), Louis Cole (as "Jimmy"), Craddock and Shadney (as "Specialty"), Charles Doyle (as "Henry Henpeck"), Edith Dunbar (as "Chorus"), Edward Farrow (as "Rastus"), Portia Hands (as "Chorus"), Katherine Henderson (as "Tough Tilly"), Slim Henderson (as "Joshua"), "Nuggie" Johnson (as "Shiftless Sam"), Dolly Langhorn (as "Chorus"), James A. Lilliard (as "Pappy Lee"), Sara Martin (as "Mammy Lee"), John Mason (as "The Dumb Waiter"), Walter Miller (as "Chorus"), Gansea Otiz (as "Chorus"), Olive Otiz (as "Sally"), Willie Porter Mammy Chloe"), Mildred Pritchard (as "Chorus"), Eva Taylor (as "May Mandy Lee"), Edwin Tonde (as "Policeman Doolittle"), Emanuel Weston (as "Kid Slick"), Clarence Williams (as "At the Piano"), Bertha Wright (as "Chorus"), Billie Yarbough (as "Chorus").
- (1927) Stage Play: Africana [1927]. Musical revue.
- (1928) Stage Play: Veils. Musical. Music by Donald Heywood. Book by Irving Kaye Davis. Lyrics by Donald Heywood. Directed by Edward Elsner. Forrest Theatre: 13 Mar 1928- Mar 1928 (closing date unknown/4 performances). Cast: Grace Allen (as "Flossie"), Nancy Chalmers (as "Gladice"), Henry Crosby (as "Oscar Van Wyck"), Alan Floud (as "Father Francis"), Florence Foxhall (as "Sister Theresa"), Charlotte Granville (as "Sister Agnes"), Mimi Helmuth (as "Patricia Kent"), Chris Holt (as "Julien Macklin"), Alex Loghe (as "Col. Gerard Owens"), Agatha Lowry (as "Mamie"), John Mackley (as "A Bum"), J. Manley (as "Prison Guard"), Alice Manny (as "Jane"), Frank B. Miller (as "A Butler"), Mary Moore (as "Sister Veronica"), Helen O'Donnell (as "Lil"), Donald Page (as "A Detective"), Florence Pendleton (as "Mag"), Julia Ralph (as "Mrs. Annie Hughes"), George Rogers (as "Mike Brady"), Elsa Shelley (as "Nan/Sister Mary"), Ann Sherman (as "Sister Louise"), Hilda Spong (as "The Reverend Mother Superior"), Helen Steele (as "Sister Gertrude"), Grant Stewart (as "His Grace the Archbishop"), Mary Tabor (as "Nell Baxter"), Frances Underwood (as "Mrs. Angela Lumis"), Arthur R. Vinton (as "Jim"), Arthur Wellington (as "Clifford Sturgis"), Charlotte Wilkins (as "Birdie"), Warren William (as "Mr. Robert Sloan"), Irene Winston (as "Rosa"), Alan Winterburn (as "Jake"). Produced by A.A. Snyder.
- (1928) Stage Play: Ringside. Written by Edward E. Paramore Jr., Hyatt Daab and George Abbott. Directed by George Abbott. Broadhurst Theatre: 29 Aug 1928- Sep 1928 (closing date unknown/37 performances). Cast: Laurel Adams, Suzanne Caubaye, Warren Colston, Harry Cooke (as "Phil"), Ashley Cooper, Joseph Crehan (as "Sid Durham"), Carlo De Angelo, Brian Donlevy (as "Huffy"), William Franklin, Robert Gleckler (as "John Zelli"), Yvonne Grey, Dan E. Hanlon, Kaye Hastings, Donald Heywood (as "Skeeter"), James Horgan, James Lane, Harriet E. MacGibbon (as "Doris O'Connell"), John Meehan (as "Peter Murray"), Packey O'Gatty, J. Ascher Smith (as "Radio Announcer"), Richard Taber (as "Bobby Murray"), Frank Verigun, Charles Wagenheim (as "Joe"), William F. Walker, Bobbe Weeks, Craig Williams, George J. Williams. Produced by Gene Buck. Note: Filmed as Night Parade (1929).
- (1930) Stage Play: Kilpatrick's Old-Time Minstrels. Minstrels/musical.
- (1930) Stage Play: Hot Rhythm. Musical revue. Music by Porter Grainger and Donald Heywood. Book by Ballard MacDonald, Will Morrissey and Edward Hurley. Lyrics by Porter Grainger and Donald Heywood. Directed by William Morrissey and Nat Cash. Times Square Theatre: 21 Aug 1930- Oct 1930 (closing date unknown/68 performances). Cast: Mae Barnes, Madeline Belt, Arthur Bryson, Ina Duncan, Laura Duncan, Mel Duncan, Nora Green, Revella Hughes, Johnny Lee Long, Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham [Broadway debut], Sammy Paige, Hilda Perleno, Eddie Rector, Inez Seeley, Simms and Bowie, Al Vigal, Edith Wilson, George Wiltshire. Produced by Max Rudnick.
- (1931) Stage Play: Wonder Boy. Comedy. Written by Edward Chodorov and Arthur Barton. Directed by Jed Harris. Alvin Theatre: 22 Oct 1931- Nov 1931 (closing date unknown/44 performances). Cast: Constance Almy, Max Beck, Jacob Bleifer, Matt Briggs, Barbara Bulgakova, David Burns, Frank Carter, Maurice Cass (as "Montague Levy"), William Challee (as "Peter Hinkle"), Eddie Craven, Hazel Dawn, Thomas Fisher, Eva Franklin, Bernard Gorcey (as "Commodore Cohen"), Jeanne Greene, D.J. Hamilton, Ross Hertz (as "Tony"), Donald Heywood )as "A Porter"), Cecil Holm (as "Mac"), Allen Jenkins (as "Joe Glick"), James Kearney, Robert Leonard, Sam Levene (as "Schwartz"), Bruce MacFarlane, Hallie Manning, Horace McMahon (as "A Reporter"), Margaret Meyers, Arnold Moss, (as "Page Boy"), Henry O'Neill (as "George Kelly"), Joseph Ploski, Arnold Preston, Gregory Ratoff (as "Phil Mashkin"), Estelle Scheer, Herman Shapiro, James R. Waters, Vincent York (as "Another Reporter"). Produced by Jed Harris.
- (1932) Stage Play: Blackberries of 1932. Musical [All Black cast]. Music by Donald Heywood and Tom Peluso. Book by Lee Posner and Eddie Green. Lyrics by Donald Heywood and Tom Peluso. Featuring songs with lyrics by Ben Bernard. Musical Director: Sam Wooding. Choreographed by Sidney Sprague and Lew Crawford. Scenic Design by Myer Kanin and Buell Scenic Studio. Costume Design by Gladys Douglas. Directed by Ben Bernard. Liberty Theatre: 4 Apr 1932- 23 Apr 1932 (24 performances). Cast: Susaye Brown, Amon Davis, John Dickens, Drake and Morton, Baby Goins, Eddie Green, Alice Harris, Georgette Harvey, Monte Hawley, Johnny Long, Natalie Long, Moms Mabley [credited as Jackie Mabley], Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham, Martin and Boisseau, Thelma Meers, Tim Moore, Mantan Moreland, Harold Norton, Sam(my) Paige, Kay Parker, Helen Powell, Robert Raines, Charles Ray, Gertrude Saunders, Bill Shepard, The Brown Madcaps, The Burma/Zulu Maids, The Three Bubbles, The Three Yorkers, Musa Williams [Broadway debut]. Produced by Max Rudnick and Ben Bernard.
- (1932) Stage Play: Ol' Man Satan. Incidental music by Donald Heywood. Directed by William A. Shilling. Forrest Theatre: 3 Oct 1932- Oct 1932 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Ismay Andrews (as "Sister Johnson"), Ellen Baylor (as "Primrose"), David Bethe (as "Disciple"), Laurence Chenault (as "Moses"), A.B. Comatheire (as "Satan"), James Cook (as "Hunchback"), Herbert Ellis (as "Keeper of Souls"), Freeman Fairley (as "Number Three Imp"), Clyde Faison (as "Noah's Temptress"), Bee Freeman (as "Second David Temptress"), Taylor Gordon (as "Disciple"), Cleo Harris (as "Merrie"), Georgette Harvey (as "Ma Jackson"), Luther Henderson (as "Disciple"), Phyllis Hunt (as "Josh"), Mike Jackson (as "Gabriel"), Florence Lee (as "Jezebel"), Tressie Legge (as "Sister Crabtree"), Arthur McLean (as "Maggie's Protector"), James McPheeters (as "John/Disciple"), Dan Michaels (as "Saul"), Fred Miller (as "Farmer"), Kolly Mitchell (as "Soldier"), Lionel Monagas (as "Peter/Murderer"), Helen Nelson (as "Mother"), Hilda Offley (as "First David Temptress"), Hayes L. Pryor (as "Noah"), Alice Ramsey (as "Sister Bright/Procuress"), Ralph Ramson (as "Blind Man"), Walter Richardson (as "David"), Walter Robinson (as "Paul"), Wandolph Saunders (as "Racketeer"), Edna Thomas (as "Maggie"), DeKoven Thompson (as "James"), Lorenzo Tucker (as "Teacher"), Mary Jane Watkins (as "Becky"). Produced by Shillwood Productions.
- (1936) Stage Play: Black Rhythm. Musical comedy.
- (1937) Stage Play: How Come, Lawd? Drama. Written by Donald Heywood [final Broadway credit]. Scenic Design by Stagecraft Studios. Directed by Charles J. Adler. 49th Street Theatre: 30 Sep 1937- Oct 1937 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Dorothy Cadoza (as "Babes"), James Fuller (as "Jackknife"), Mercedes Gilbert (as "Mom"), George L. Ingram (as "Yamacraw"), Harry D. Ingram (as "Sammy"), Rex Ingram (as "Big Boy"), Columbus Jackson, Alex Lovejoy, Edgar Martin, Dan Michaels, Hilda Rogers (as "Clorinda"), Homer Tutt (as "Pa"), Leigh Whipper (as "Aloes"). Produced by The Negro Theatre Guild.
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