Deborrah Kaye "Debbie" Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
 She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series "Fame", where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series' principal choreographer.
 She currently portrays Catherine Avery on "Grey's Anatomy".
 She is the younger sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad.
We Work Again is a 1937 ephemeral film produced by the Work Projects Administration to promote its employment and training efforts for African-Americans during the Great Depression.
 Various jobs are shown, including public construction projects, domestic service and health care training, adult education programs and performing arts.
 It is particularly noted for containing the only existing footage of the 1936 Federal Theatre Project production of "Macbeth", directed by Orson Welles and featuring an all-black cast.
This theatre company is named after the African-American branch of the Federal Theatre Project, which was created in the United States during the Great Depression to provide resources for theatre and other artistic programs.
 The company has operated out of a few different locations on Henry Street in the lower east side of Manhattan.
 Since 1970 The New Federal Theatre has provided its community with a stage and collection of talented performers to express the voices of numerous African-America playwrights.
 New Federal Theatre boasts nationally known playwrights such as Ron Milner ("Checkmates"), Ed Bullins ("The Taking of Miss Janine"), and Ntozake Shange ("For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf") as well as actors including Jackée Harry, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, Dick Anthony Williams, Glynn Turman, Taurean Blacque, Samuel L. Jackson, and Laurence Fishburne.
The Orlando Theatre Project is a nonprofit professional theatre company based in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando.
 The company was founded in 1985 and operates under an Actors' Equity Association contract.
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988) was a British-American actor and producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of "Citizen Kane" and his storied collaboration with writer Raymond Chandler's intoxicated screenplay rendering as producer of "The Blue Dahlia."
 He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in the film "The Paper Chase" (1973), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
 He reprised his role as Kingsfield in the subsequent television series adaptation of "The Paper Chase".
 Houseman was also known for his commercials for the brokerage firm Smith Barney.
 He had a distinctive Mid-Atlantic English accent, in common with many actors of his generation.
Hallie Flanagan Davis (August 27, 1890 in Redfield, South Dakota – June 23, 1969 in Old Tappan, New Jersey) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Canada Lee (born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, March 3, 1907 – May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans.
 After careers as a jockey, boxer and musician, he became an actor in the Federal Theatre Project, most notably in a 1936 production of "Macbeth" adapted and directed by Orson Welles.
 Lee later starred in Welles's original Broadway production of "Native Son" (1941).
 A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, Lee was blacklisted and died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
 He furthered the African-American tradition in theatre pioneered by such actors as Paul Robeson.
 Lee was the father of actor Carl Lee.
The American Negro Theater (ANT) was formed in Harlem on June 5, 1940, by writer Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal.
 The group was founded by the influence of the purposes of the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project in Harlem.
 It produced 19 plays before closing in 1949.
 Designed as a community theater group, performances were held in Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
 In 1942, ANT began its Studio Theatre training program for beginning actors.
 Graduates include Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
The National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD) is the oldest theatre company in the United States that has continually gone on tours and produced original works.
 The company has visited each of the 50 states in close to 80 national tours, as well as many countries in over 30 international tours.
 It was founded in 1967 after psychologist Dr. Edna Simon Levine, set designer avid Hays, and Broadway's director Arthur Penn and actress Anne Bancroft of "The Miracle Worker" began planning and fundraising in the 1950s.
 Start-up costs were funded by federal grants, and the company held its first performance at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
 In 1968, the Little Theatre of the Deaf was founded to produce shows for a younger-aged audience.
 The Little Theatre of the Deaf is also still producing and touring today.
 Productions combine the use of American Sign Language with the spoken word, in accordance with the theatre's mission statement to educate the general public about Deaf art and link Deaf and hearing communities.
 In 1994, the National and Worldwide Deaf Theatre Conference had its first meeting, in which global Deaf playwrights and actors gathered to hold discussions, critiques, and celebrations of Deaf theatre.
 The precedence and support of the National Theatre of the Deaf is considered instrumental in the founding and collaboration of a Deaf theatre community worldwide.
 The National Theatre of the Deaf has won several awards, including the Tony Award for Theatrical Excellence.
 Ex-NTD actress Phyllis Frelich won the 1980 Best Actress Tony Award for "Children of a Lesser God" produced by The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
 Linda Bove, a regular on the television series "Sesame Street", also acted with NTD.
 Other famous actors who have worked with NTD include NTD co-founder Bernard Bragg, Colleen Dewhurst, Sir Michael Redgrave, Chita Rivera, Jason Robards and Meryl Streep.
 Today, the Theatre is located on the campus of the American School of the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut.
 The theatre still goes on tour, produces and adapts stage works, and is expanding into a few teleplay features on public television to continue to create new opportunities and audiences for Deaf theater.
James Theodore Ward (September 15, 1902 – May 8, 1983) was a leftist political playwright and theatre educator during the first half of the 20th century and one of the earliest contributors to the Black Chicago Renaissance.
 Often referred to as the "dean of black dramatists," Ward was well known for tackling controversial topics related to African-American urban life during the Great Depression.
 His staged works were lauded for their innovative depiction of the black experience, most notably for doing away with the spiritual ballads and feverish dancing that dominated "Negro theatricals" of his time in favor of a more nuanced, naturalistic approach to plot and character.
 A prolific writer, Ward composed over thirty plays and co-founded the Negro Playwrights Company with Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and Richard Wright.
 His best known works are the drama "Big White Fog" (1938), produced by the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago as well the musical "Our Lan'" (1947) which premiered on Broadway at New York's Royale Theatre.

Question: The theatre company named after what branch of the Federal Theatre Project that boasts actors best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series "Fame"?
Answer: African-American branch