ABOUT THE SHOW

Satchmo at the Waldorf is a three-character play in which E. Stanley Richardson portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters, Joe Glaser, his white Jewish manager and Jazz Artist Miles Davis, who admired Armstrong’s playing but disliked his onstage manner. It takes place in 1971 with Armstrong reminiscing into a tape recorder about his life and work while backstage at the Empire Room of New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he performed in public for the last time four months before his death.

Terry Teachout has crafted a work that allows you to gaze into the world of Armstrong, the early days of Chicago music and the business behind the business. Satchmo at the Waldorf has received the Nomination of the NAACP Image Award and the Guggeheim Fellowship.

ABOUT ACTOR’S WAREHOUSE

The Actors’ Warehouse is an award-winning community theatre founded in 2011 and incorporated 2014 as a 501(c)(3). “We are an enterprising project generated from and by this community. It was born out of a need to increase theatrical diversity in casting and programming for the Gainesville community.”

ABOUT THE PERFORMER

E. Stanley Richardson (Louis Armstrong) has been an active actor in the Florida Theater scene.His stage credits have included "In Splendid Error (Fredrick Douglas)," Acrosstown Repertory Theater,  Fences(Troy) Jesus Hopped the A-Train (Lucius Jenkins), Cat on Hot Tin Roof (Big Daddy),at The Actor's Warehouse" "Free Man of Color (John Templeton), From Colored To Black (Albert White) at University of Florida Performing Arts Center," "Akeelah and the Bee (Mr. Larabee)" Star Center Children's Theater and The Royal (Winton) at Gainesville's Hippodrome State Theater.

Mr. Richardson is an American Author; "Hip Hop Is Dead-Long Live Hip Hop; The Birth, Death And Resurrection Of Hip Hop Activism" (Poetry, 2017), Actor, Social Justice Advocate, and Lecturer; "What Happens To Organic Black Cultural and Artistic Expression In A Colonial Environment" 

He is the founder and director of ARTSPEAKSgnv (Bringing Poetry & People Together) and ARTSPEAKS: (Courageous Young Voices) a non profit organization dedicated to promoting literacy, encouraging creativity, bringing awareness, expanding ideas, and opportunity by providing a medium for expression through the art of poetry, spoken-word and storytelling. He is the Director of the Alachua County Youth Poet Laureate Program and the North Center Florida Youth Poet Laureate Program. He lectures extensively on the subject of corporate Hip Hop and What Happens To Organic Black Cultural Expression In a Colonial Environment.

Mr. Richardson is also the host of "Ground LeVeL Radio" at WUBA 88.1 FMHigh Springs FL. 

He is a city of Alachua native and a University of Florida alumnus.