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For theater group, creativity isn't an act

Kene Holliday of Amityville coaches Sharon Jenkins Jones

Photo credit: Nancy Borowick | Kene Holliday of Amityville coaches Sharon Jenkins Jones of Baldwin as she reads and performs her piece, "The Thing About My Man," at a rehearsal of the Moto Theatre Works group in Hempstead. (Feb. 13, 2012)

Even through concrete walls, reinforced glass windows and double foyer doors, Kene Holliday's voice floods the cold night air around the 100 Black Men building in Hempstead.

Inside, a handful of people in chairs sit in a semicircle. Sitting rigidly in the center is a woman reading from a script she wrote but didn't expect to perform.

Holliday -- who is 62 but still recognizable from...

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