Winners for Cycle 4 of The Next Wave Initiative, the developmental branch of The Directors Company that is committed to amplifying future Black voices in the American theatre, have been named!

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Aamar-Malik Culbreth of Baldwin Wallace University is this cycle's Hattie McDaniel Acting Scholarship, with Mo Holmes of Columbia University School of the Arts taking the Lorraine Hansberry Writing Scholarship. Tramaine Raphael Gray of California Institute of the Arts is the Spike Lee Directing Scholarship winner, and Davon Williams of Yale's David Geffen School of Drama is the Black Excellence Impact Award winner.