 Green as producing director, and Joe Jordan as the resident director of music, Motts' Pekin Theatre became the "only theatre in America playing colored artists exclusively", at a time when “most whites believed that Blacks possessed little or no skill in theater management”.In all the Pekin Theatre’s all African-American staff of 18 included a press agent, a treasurer, and a house physician, as well as its acting troupe, the Pekin Stock Co., with 34 members.Among the numerous actors, playwrights, and directors to have contributed to the Pekin’s enormous popularity were Charles Sidney Gilpin, Jesse A. Shipp, Harrison Stewart (1882-1918), Lottie Grady, and J.Ed Green.