Resume’: David Rambeau – July 2008

Media : The producer of For My People, Business In The Black, The-da-mu presents..., (Theater/Dance/Music), a + b = c. an algebra instructional program, several foreign language shows on cable and the Internet, and Wake Up Detroit television and cable programs – publisher and editor of the For My People Newsmagazine, aznd the Urban Theater Magazine – political analyst for the For My People television production – developer of the Project BAIT web-site: projectbait.blakgold.net – producer of For My People, a five-hour radio production on WDET-FM, the public broadcasting station in Detroit in the 70s.  Working on the development of an Internet television station, projectbait.org.

Writer : of short stories originally published in CityView magazine, and currently on Timbooktu.com, a published poet, social and political essayist in several Detroit-based newspapers and magazines. Writer of two plays, “Oh What A Night” and “ACE”, both produced by the Young Peoples’ Musical Theater of Detroit. Adaptor of the television production, “Fame” for the stage. Proposal writer par excellence. Editor of the book, “The History of Conant Gardens and other publications.  Discussing the writing a docu-drama for theater and the print media with Willie Stamps, a Detroit activist.

Theater : One of the founders of and long-time producer/director for the Concept East Theater, developer of the cable television soap opera, “No Claim On Tomorrow”, co-producer for the Young People’s Musical Theater of Detroit at First Baptist Institutional Church in northwest Detroit, and producer/actor for many years with Drama Associates, in addition to being an actor and director of many Detroit theater productions. Guest editor, Detroit Theater Edition of Black Masks Magazine, organizer and Chair of the Detroit International Black Theater Conference and Festival scheduled for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, September 19 - 21, 2008.

Teacher : Of Black Studies at the collegiate level at Wayne County Community College, University of Detroit and Monteith College, Wayne State University. Currently television production mentor of interns for Project BAIT. Director of BAIT Writers Workshop. One-time media consultant for Nsoroma Institute, a charter school, at one time a math teacher in the Dedtroit Public School System. Organizer of Fliessend vor Freitag, a German language course and cable television production. Currently developing the African World Institute, a language immersion (English, German, French) school.

Organizer and Production Developer : September Is Black Reading Month project with the September Is Black Reading Month organization, the African World Language & Culture Fair and Seminar with Nsoroma Institute, and theater parties in support of Plowshares Theater, contributor to the Azalia Hackley Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Organizer of the Urban Extension Program at the University of Detroit and subsequently the Black Studies program at University of Detroit. Organizer and agitator for the establishment of the Black Theater Program and the Center for Black Studies at Wayne State University and the Black Theater Program at the University of Michigan.  Producer of the Gatherings at the African-American Literature Special Collection, Wayne State University, Chair/Organizer of the Detroit International Black Theater Conference & Festival.   

Business Consultant: Proposal writer, business plan developer, research amd media advisor for small business.

Parent : Of Kenya Rambeau Goldsberry and grandfather to “the girls”, Kayla and Maya.

Hobbies : Reading, studying French, walking on Belle Isle. And more…