Verna Craighead Green under her company name VERN MIKE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT have published 3 episodes of REDD on this channel as a virtual series. The viewer number is rising as the fourth episode is being produced , Verna Craighead Green and Michael Terry formed Vern-Mike Music Productions in 1986 and produced the musical play BREAKTHROUGH at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus Theatre and had multiple runs at the Karamu House Performing Arts Theatre (1987, 1988), Powers Auditorium, (1987) Cleveland Play House Bolton Theatre (1987), Liberty Hill Performing Arts (1989) and Masonic Temple (1995).
Ms. Craighead Green has written and toured other pieces as REJOICE, The history of Black Gospel Music, Lorain Palace Theatre 1989, KINGSHIGHWAY and THE UNION an expose of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Kent State University. THANKGOODNESS ITS YOU, written exclusively for Monticello Middle School, 1988, THE BAKE OFF and THE KINGPIN STRIKES, written exclusively for UMADOP program for seniors who struggle with Alcohol and Drug dependency and TRILOGY IN BLUE a short melodrama about three striving female performers.
Her melodrama REDD received honorable mention in the Proctor and Gamble Dreamakers Contest and was selected by the renown NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY (NEC) of New York to be included in their Works in Progress Series, 1989.
Ms. Green’s latest work HALIE THE MUSICAL is based on the younger years of singer Mahalia Jackson and has had 10 professional performances in Cleveland and Columbus.
In 2000 Ms. Craighead Green became Pastor of Pillar of Faith Christian Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
She is the mother of Theodore C. Craighead, an educator in Paris, France, and Dorwin A. Green, a recent graduate of Cleveland Heights High School.