TheOrator.Press Theatre News, Reviews & Interviews Page: We Talk To Award-Winning Texas Born Actor ‘Cedric Neal’ About Becoming A British Citizen, Having A Calling, What Winning A Black British Theatre Award Means To Him, Ancestors & Forebears Helping Descendents Survive Tough Times, And His Hopes For The Future. October 2025

Left Video: Cedric Neal’s Acceptance Speech At The BBTAs Sun Oct 26th 2025 @Iamcedricneal Videography By Black Apron Entertainment @blackapronent @thebbtas

Above Photo: The Arch Angels Are Ever Present @iamcedricneal Hadestown Gala 2.1 (Nicola Roberts Edition @lilcola Persephone In Hadestown) October Last Year. Photo @PiersAllardycePhotographer. Tailoring by @jessicaarkin Styling @carlosdechateaumorand (See TO.P‘s Seperate Style & Fashion Feature Also In Our Black History Month October 2025 Special Issue)

How Do We Survive This Current Hell When The American VP (JDV) Is Making Fun of Brown People… And His Own Wife And Children Are Brown? “We Survive By Standing On The Shoulders of Our Ancestors And Those Who Have Come Before Us Who For Hundreds of Years Have Shown Us How To Persevere”.

Going Forward What’s Next For You And In Particular I’d Like You To Give Your Opinon On What Omar & Solange Have Achieved In Setting Up These Awards? “I Believe I’ve Been Given This Gift From My God, “The Gift Giver” To Encourage And Inspire People Behind Me And If I Do That, No Other Awards Matter.” “I’m So Grateful To Omar And Solange For Setting Up The BBTAs. As I Said Before, Recognition From My People For What We Do Means More To Me Than Any Other Recognition In Terms.”

Being Moved To Tears By Being Recognised By TO.P ? “There Is A Scripture That Says God Is Able To Do It Singularly Above And Abundantly Above What We Ask Or Think”: And Tonight Was A Manifestation of That.”