Filmmaker Statement

When “The Mother of Black Hollywood” Jenifer Lewis says she loves a script, you make that film! ADO is that film. Firstly, though, it’s a film about my mother, a middle school theatre teacher who can’t afford to retire, who raised her students with as much love as she raised me. This film is, indeed, a love letter to my mother delivered by the character played by my daughter. But it’s also a love letter to all of the teachers who stand and deliver as some our truest American heroes every day.