 Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y.Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City.In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as "The Long Dream", "Nobody Loves an Albatross", "The Amen Corner", "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Vieux Carré".