For theater group, creativity isn't an act
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)
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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...
