BROADWAY

Vinie Burrows ...began her career as a child actress on radio and made her Broadway theatre debut with Helen Hayes in Wisteria Trees directed by the renowned Joshua Logan.

In almost immediate succession came six more Broadway appearances with William Marshall and Ossie Davis in the revival of Green Pastures;with Claude Rains, in Jezebel’s Husband; with Mary Martin, George Abbott, Helen Hayes in Skin of Our Teeth (played Paris, Washington, and a limited run on Broadway); with Eartha Kitt in Mrs. Patterson; with Will Geer and David Wayne in Eudora Welty’s The Ponder Heart; with Franchot Tone and Dennis Hopper in Mandingo.

OFF BROADWAY

Vinie garnered rave reviews in four off Broadway productions:
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard -- produced by the Classical Theatre of Harlem Her one woman show celebrating the Black experience, Walk Together Children A theatre happening celebrating women around the world Sister! Sister! Dramatic vignettes of women from Africa, the Caribbean, South Pacific, England and Australia was woven into a bold tapestry of moods, feelings, sounds and
vibrations from Africa and the Diaspora in the Her Talking Drum.
Ms. Burrows was in the original cast of The Blacks by Jean Genet with Lou Gossett, Roscoe Brown, Roxie Roker, Godfrey Cambridge, Cicely Tyson, Edmund Cambridge, Arthur French and many others. She also played in Harlem’s Gift to Broadway.