Bassett Gets Plum Role
Continued From Pa£e IB
Carolina, with her father's
sister and her husband. She
then moved to St. Petersburg,
Fla., with her mother, a civil
service worker at the State
Health and Human Resourc
es office, and younger sister
Dannette. "We lived a very
simple, humble life,"Bassett
said, "but there was a lot of
love from my family and the
community. 1 always felt
that everyone was In my cor
ner, from my mother to my
teachers, to the church choir.
It was as though I had an ex
tended family."
That extended family in
cluded those whom she calls
her ''Guardian Angels," spe
cifically Vice "Prlnclpai Rob
ert Anders of Boca Clega
High School, and George
Langhorn, director of Up
ward Bound, a weekend aca
demic program for gifted stu
dents to which Angela
belonged. "My mother was
always supportive of my de
sire to be an actress and In
stilled the Idea that the peo
ple I associated with should
be doing positive things,
while Mr. Anders and Mr.
Longhorn kept after me
about my studies," she says.
During Angela's senior year
in high school, as she was
applying to dtfferent colleg
es, and contemplating career
choices, Langhorn wrote a
letter to Mrs. Bassett suggest
ing that she make certain
that Angela also submit ap
plications and transcripts to
Yale, Harvard and Berkeley,
among others. "I would never
have thought to apply to
those great universities," An
gela says. "Not because I
couldn't get In, but It just
wasn't In my consciousness.
He (Langhorn) saw some
thing In me that I couldn't
see."
Bassett chose Yale for her
undergraduate and graduate
studies and discovered thelr
drama department. 'Yale has
one of the best drama
schools In the country and I
met a lot of people there who
were as fervent about acting
as I was," she says. It was
also the first year that legen
dary director Lloyd Richards
began his tenure at Yale. He
became a mentor and eventu
ally directed Angela In the
Yale Repertory Theatre and
Broadway productions of
"Joe Turner's Come and
Gone."
After graduation from the
drama school, Bassett head
ed to New York City. A lot of
casting people recognized her
abilities and expressed Inter
est In her. but it took seven
long months before Angela
landed her first professional
stage role. "In the meantime,
I had to keep my confidence
up." she says of this transi
tion period, "but I knew It
was just a matter of time and
perseverance. Meanwhile, I
worked at a salon making
appointments, and at U.S.
News and World Report In
the photo department select
ing pictures for the maga
zine. Then I got a call to play
'Antigone,' In an off-off-
Broadway showcase."
As the title character In
this classic tragedy by Soph
ocles, Bassett caught the at
tention of The Negro Ensem
ble Company who Invited
her to join them for a bus
and truck tour of a play com
memorating Black History
Month. When the tour was
completed, she was promptly
cast in the Harvard Stage
Company production "The
Mystery Plays," In which she
played all the women In the
Bible. "It was what is known
as non-tradltlonal casting,"
she smiles. "The cast consist
ed of five white men, and me!
I was especially concerned
because I didn't know how
audiences would respond to
this."
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