Andrew is a first time writer/filmmaker with ‘Masquerade.’ He is currently an associate producer on the Broadway-bound musical ‘Home Street Home’ and co-director of Have A Sleepover Productions with his partner, Jeff Marx. Andrew studied Theater and English at George Mason University and has held positions at Fox 21 and WestEnd Films at the Cannes Film Festival.
I discovered the story of the slave couple William and Ellen Craft during my junior year of high school. I sat back, agape, at their unbelievable story. In 1848, in order to escape, Ellen, who was fair-skinned, passed as a sickly white man, while William masqueraded as her slave companion.
They lived in Boston until their former masters dispatched slave catchers to bring them back, an action legalized nationally in the US Congress in 1850. When it became too dangerous they were secretly stowed on a boat…
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