Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201cHe started me on my career path to become a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Assistant Director,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201d Chu says. She met him while a freshman in a general education theater class. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201cI’ve been a DGA AD for over 15 years and counting. I would not be who I am without Anthony Major. My life has been blessed with him as a dedicated inspiring educator, a colleague and a truly great friend. He is simply amazing./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n
Major/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u2019s personal contributions to the local arts scene have not gone unnoticed either. The Black History Committee of Orange County honored Major with its 2010 Excellence in Education Award. The high school he attended, The Booker Performing Arts High School in Sarasota, renamed its rehearsal hall in his honor. He also served as the program director for the Zora Neale Hurston Institute for Documentary Studies for several years./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n
Central Floridians may also recognize him from his work as director of /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201cA Vote, A Voice,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201d produced for Florida Sen. Geraldine Thompson. Or perhaps from his teaching, acting and directing in the UCF Conservatory Theatre and his work with Seminole State College Theatre./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n
His favorite projects are those that tell an American story from an underrepresented community/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u2019s point of view. It gives those communities a voice, he said. And he hopes the students he helps continue to help tell their stories./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u2019s good to see them succeed,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/u201d he says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/94424/n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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