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Francine DeWitt-Haynes can’t be sure, but she suspects that her father was inspired to co-create what is now known as Common Ground Theatre after attending a play as a student at Columbia University in New York City. When the late Rufus DeWitt moved his family from Mobile, Ala., to San Diego, there wasn’t an organized theater company for Black San Diegans, so he and a friend started the Southeast Community Theatre in 1963, which changed its name to Common Ground Theatre in 2003. “Since my father was a YMCA director, his focus was on the youth,” DeWitt-Haynes says. “(He) founded a theater that included all ages, bringing outstanding plays to the southeastern San Diego community and to the city of San Diego. I am very proud of my father’s accomplishment” in creating Common Ground Theatre, one of the longest-running and respected Black theater companies in the country, she says.

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