Dr. King's Dream
Warren C. Bowles, the talented actor featured in Dr. King's Dream, has been a member of Mixed Blood's company since 1977. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he received his Master's in Theatre at the University of Minnesota.
In 1984 he became the first African American to play the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, adding it to his scores of credits at Mixed Blood. Among the most recent and notable of those are Distracted, Point of Revue, Dance on Widow's Walk, Flags, Wait Until Dark, The Boys Next Door, Oleanna and King of the Kosher Grocers. Warren has played Dr. King since 1980 (having also toured as Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson), visiting twenty states and performing for over 1.3 million people. He also appeared Off-Broadway, at the Gutherie and Cricket Theatres in Minneapolis, the American Players' Theatre in Spring Green (WI), and with other companies across the country. He directed Mixed Blood's production of Permanent Collection and its touring productions of Daughters of Africa, Jackie Robinson and Black Eagle, having written the latter for Mixed Blood in 1997. Mixed Blood will tour his new play African American this year.