When Toledo native John S. Scott looked out into the audience of the first New York play he’d written only six people stared back.
In some ways he was Tyler Perry decades before Tyler Perry came along, starting from an unlikely background and fueled by a love of storytelling – and a desire to create more provocative black characters than Madea.
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