Ruben Santiago-Hudson had dreamed of being in an August Wilson from the first time he was in the audience ofMa Raineys Black Bottom. He found himself crying during the play and realized he was not just deeply moved by the play and the actors in it but the tears were connected to this feeling that for the first time in his life he was seeing people on stage who were so familiar to him and he wanted to be a part of that kind of storytelling.
